Angus Charles Graham

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Angus Charles Graham (born July 8, 1919 in Penarth , Glamorgan , † March 26, 1991 in Nottingham ) was a British sinologist , philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Graham taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He translated the first seven books of the Zhuangzi , Liezi and several other ancient Chinese philosophical texts into English.

He also emerged with work on the school of the Mohists . His analytical work on the talk of being in classical Chinese philosophy was the first of its kind.

In 1981 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

Works

  • A companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu: the inner chapters / Angus Charles Graham. - Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c 2003
  • Later Mohist logic, ethics and science / Angus Charles Graham. - Hong Kong: Chinese Univ. Press, 1978
  • Poems of the late T'ang / Angus Charles Graham. - Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, (1965)
  • Later mohist logic, ethics and science / Graham, Angus C. - Reprint ed. - Hong Kong: The Chinese Univ. Press, 2003
  • Chuang-tzŭ: the inner chapters / Zhuangzi. - Reprinted. - Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co, 2001
  • Two Chinese philosophers: the metaphysics of the brothers Chʿêng / Graham, Angus Charles. - La Salle, Ill: Open Court, c1992
  • Unreason within reason: essays on the outskirts of rationality / Graham, Angus Charles. - LaSalle, Ill .: Open Court, 1992
  • Chinese texts and philosophical contexts: essays dedicated to Angus C. Graham / Rosemont, Henry. - 1st pr. - La Salle, Ill .: Open Court, 1991
  • Studies in Chinese philosophy and philosophical literature / Graham, Angus Charles. - Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, c1990
  • The book of Lieh-tzŭ: a classic of the Tao / Lieh-tzŭ. - Columbia University Press Morningside ed. - New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1990
  • Disputers of the Tao: philosophical argument in ancient China / Graham, Angus C. - La Salle, Ill .: Open Court, 1989
  • Two Chinese philosophers: Chʿêng Ming-tao and Ch '^ eng Yi-ch'uan / Graham, Angus Charles. - Repr. - London: Lund Humphries, 1978
  • The Nung-Chia 'School of the Tillers' and the Origin of the Peasant Utopianism in China // Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 42 no.1, 1978, pp. 66-100. Reprinted in Graham AC Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature. SUNY Press, 1986.

Name variants

Angus C. Graham, AC Graham, Angus Charles Graham

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Graham, Angus Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sinologist, philosopher and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Penarth , Glamorgan
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1991
Place of death Nottingham