David Schaberg
{{Short description|American academic (born 1964)}}
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David Schaberg is an American academic. He is the author of a book on the Zuo Zhuan and the Guoyu, for which he won the 2003 Joseph Levenson Book Prize. He was formerly the dean of humanities and the senior dean of the college at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).{{cite web |last1=Carter |first1=Emily |title=David Schaberg to Step Down as Dean of the Division of Humanities and Senior Dean of the College |url=https://evcp.ucla.edu/announcements/2021-22/david-schaberg-to-step-down-as-dean-of-the-division-of-humanities-and-senior-dean-of-the-college/ |publisher=UCLA |access-date=23 August 2024}}
Early life
David Schaberg graduated from Stanford University in 1986.{{cite web|title=DAVID C. SCHABERG|url=http://www.alc.ucla.edu/person/david-c-schaberg/|website=Department of Asian Languages and Cultures|publisher=UCLA|accessdate=November 19, 2017}} He earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1996.
Career
Schaberg joined the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA in 1996.{{cite web|title=ABOUT THE DEANS|url=http://www.college.ucla.edu/about/about-the-deans/|website=UCLA College|accessdate=November 19, 2017}} Since July 2012, he has served as the dean of Humanities at UCLA. He was appointed as the senior dean of the college for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2020.{{Cite web|date=2020-06-30|title=David Schaberg Appointed Senior Dean of the College|url=https://evcp.ucla.edu/announcements/2019-20/david-schaberg-appointed-senior-dean-of-the-college/|access-date=2020-11-25|website=Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost|language=en-US}}
Schaberg is the author of a book entitled A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography, for which he won the 2003 Joseph Levenson Book Prize. The book is about two Chinese texts: the Zuo zhuan and the Guoyu.{{cite journal|last1=Durrant|first1=Stephen|title=Reviewed Work: A Patterned past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography by David Schaberg|journal=The Journal of Asian Studies|date=November 2004|volume=63|issue=4|pages=1108–1110|jstor=4133222|doi=10.1017/s0021911804002633|doi-access=free}} In a review for The Review of Politics, Karen Turner described it as "very well-grounded in literary theory and comparative studies" but "clearly aimed to appeal to a scholarly audience of China specialists familiar with the debates surrounding these two ancient texts."{{cite journal|last1=Turner|first1=Karen|title=Reviewed Work: A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography by David Schaberg|journal=The Review of Politics|date=Spring 2003|volume=65|issue=2|pages=302–304|jstor=1408820}} Reviewing it for The Journal of Asian Studies, professor Stephen Durrant praised the book as "worth reading, pondering, and consulting over and over again", adding that it "deserves a prominent place on the bookshelf of every student of early China." University of Wisconsin-Madison William Nienhauser wrote in the Journal of the American Oriental Society that "this is a book that should be read once by all students of early China" and re-read.{{cite journal|last1=Nienhauser|first1=William H. Jr.|title=Reviewed Work: A Patterned past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography by David Schaberg|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=October 2002|volume=122|issue=3|pages=846–849|doi=10.2307/3217627}} In the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, professor Martin Kern of Princeton University wrote a lengthy review, and concluded, "David Schaberg's work will prove invaluable for all further study of Chinese historiography, anecdotal narrative, and rhetoric. It gives great pleasure through its intelligent argument, fine phrasing, and comprehensive scholarship."{{cite journal|last1=Kern|first1=Martin|title=Reviewed Work: A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography by David Schaberg|journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies|date=June 2003|volume=63|issue=1|pages=273–289|doi=10.2307/25066699}}
Selected works
- {{cite book|last1=Schaberg|first1=David|title=A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography|date=2001|publisher=Harvard University Asia Center|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=9780674008618|oclc=469530203}}
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