Arthur Christopher Moule

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Arthur Christopher Moule (born 1873 in Hangzhou ; died 1957 ) was a British Anglican sinologist and university professor. He was a professor of Chinese at Cambridge University .

life and work

Arthur Christopher Moule came from a missionary family. He was born in Hangzhou as the son of the Anglican missionary George Moule (1828–1912). He finished school in London and then, following in his father's footsteps, became a missionary himself. After returning to England, he devoted himself entirely to science. From 1933 to 1938 he was a professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge. In 1931 he received the Stanislas Julien Prize ( Stanislas Julien Prize) for his work Christians in China on Chinese Christianity . His research on Marco Polo is also significant.

Publications

  • A List of Musical and Other Sound-Producing Instruments of the Chinese , first in: Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society , vol. 39 [1908] (Reprint: Buren, Netherlands: F. Knuf 1989. Source Materials in Ethnomusicology , Volume 3)
  • Christians in China Before the Year 1550 , London: SPCK , 1930 digitized
  • Quinsai: With other notes on Marco Polo , Cambridge University Press, 1957
  • The rulers of China, 221 BC-AD 1949; chronological tables. With an introductory section on the earlier rulers c. 2100-249 BC , Routledge and K. Paul, 1957
  • Marco Polo. The Description of the World (with Paul Pelliot ). London 1938 digitized
  • Marco Polo. Transcription of the Original in Latin (with Paul Pelliot ). London 1938

References and footnotes

  1. persee.fr - accessed April 10, 2019

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