Chinese Names of Western Scholars

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Chinese Names of Western Scholars

A directory compiled and maintained by

Philip Clart 柯若樸

University of Leipzig

Last updated: 4 January 2010

This listing aims to facilitate communication between Western and Asian China-scholars. As anyone who has attended a bi- or multilingual conference can attest, some amount of confusion is occasioned by the fact that Western sinologists are usually known in Chinese-speaking academia primarily by their Chinese names. As the latter, however, are not in common use in Western academic circles, it often takes a while to figure out that, for example, the professor Du Zanqi 杜贊奇, whom a Chinese conference participant keeps citing, is in fact better known in the English-speaking world as Prasenjit Duara.

With a view towards tackling this particular barrier to scholarly communication, I have compiled a preliminary list of several hundred Chinese names of Western scholars. “Western” here does not refer to any sort of ethnic identity, but merely indicates that the person in question publishes (or published) on some aspect of Chinese culture in a Western language. Thus, the list also includes, for example, Chinese, Taiwanese, Singaporean, Malaysian, Japanese, and Korean scholars whose names typically only appear in transcription in their publications.

No particular search criteria were applied in compiling this list so that the result is a somewhat heterogeneous mix of scholars from all over the world, most of them alive, some already deceased. It is hoped that the publication of the list will result in submission of additional entries by scholars the world over. I expect to expand and update the listings on a regular basis. Of course, other comments as well as corrections are always welcome and should be directed by email to clart [at] uni-leipzig.de.

I would like to thank Dr. Fabian Heubel 何乏筆 of Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) and Mr. Andreas Berndt 愽安德 (University of Leipzig) for their help in assembling the data presented here.

Western Name
Chinese Name

A


Ahn, Byung-joon
安秉俊

Alger, Grant
葛治平

Alitto, Guy Salvatore
艾愷

Allen, Joseph
周文龍

Amelung, Iwo
阿梅龍

Ames, Roger
安樂哲

Andersen, Poul
安保羅

Anderson, Marston
安敏成

Asim, Ina
康怡諾




B


Bachner, Andrea
白安卓

Balabanova, Severina Angelova
謝薇娜

Baldanza, Kathlene
白凱琳

Ballantine, Joseph William
包蘭亭

Barnhart, Richard
班宗華

Barnett, Arthur Doak
鮑大可

Barnett, Robert Warren
鮑華倫

Barnhart, Richard
班宗華

Barr, Allan
白亞仁

Barrett, David Dave
包瑞德

Baum, Richard
包瑞嘉

Baxter, Bill
白一平

Beauclair, Inez de
鮑克蘭

Bedeski, Robert Edward
白德基

Bell, Daniel A.
貝淡寧

Benton, Gregor
班國瑞

Bergere, Marie-Claire
白吉爾

Bernhardt, Kathryn
白凱

Bernstein, Thomas P.
白思鼎

Berry, Michael
白睿文

Bianco, Lucien
畢仰高

Billeter, Jean-François
畢來德

Billioud, Sébastien
畢遊塞

Bingenheimer, Marcus
馬德偉

Bisson, Thomas Arthur
畢恩來

Blussé, Leonard
包樂史

Bodolec, Caroline
羅琳

Børdahl, Vibeke
易德波

Bokenkamp, Steven
柏夷

Bol, Peter K.
包弼德

Bonnin, Michel
潘鳴嘯

Boorman, Howard Lyon
包華德

Brahm, Laurence
龍安志

Brook, Timothy
卜正民

Brown, Melissa
鮑梅立

Buchta, Katrin
薄琳

Buck, David D.
鮑德威

Bunk, James
博哲銘

Burger, Werner
布威納

Burns, John Pond
卜約翰

Burov, Vladilen
布羅夫

Bussotti, Michela
米蓋拉




C


Cabestan, Jean-Pierre
高敬文

Cahill, James
高居翰

Carnoguska, Marina
黑山

Carruthers, Catherine
杜可歆