Denis Twitchett

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Denis Crispin Twitchett (1925-2006) was a British Sinologist. He was a lecturer at the University of London (1954-56) and Cambridge (1956-60), the Chair of Chinese at the universities of London (1960-68) and Cambridge (1968-80), and the Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University (1980-94). He was a fellow of the British Academy from 1967.

Publications

  • Financial Administration under the T’ang Dynasty (1963)
  • Printing and Publishing in Medieval China (1983)
  • The Writing of Official History Under the T’ang (1992)
  • (with P. J. M. Geelan) The Times Atlas of China (1974)