Shaw Professor of Chinese

The Shaw Professor of Chinese position is one of the permanent professorships at the University of Oxford , England. She was founded in 1876 as a professor of Chinese and is now linked to a professorship at University College Oxford. The chair is part of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. After Run Run Shaw made a donation of £ 3,000,000 to the university in 1993 for the development of Chinese studies, part of which was used to equip the chair, the chair was renamed the Shaw Professorship.

The people who have held the professorship since it was founded:

• James Legge 1876-97
• Thomas Lowndes Bullock 1899-1915
• William Edward Soothill 1920–35
• Homer Hasenpflug Dubs 1947–59
• David Hawkes 1959-71
• Piet van der Loon 1972-87
• Glen Dudbridge 1989-2005
• Timothy Brook 2007-09
• Barend J. ter Haar 2013 to date

Individual evidence

1. ^ Shaw Professorship of Chinese , University of Oxford, accessed December 29, 2017
2. ↑ Congregation October 12: Promulgation of Statutes ( Memento of the original of February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Oxford University Gazette, accessed December 29, 2017 
3. ↑ Legge, James (1815-1897) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, October 2006, accessed December 29, 2017
4. ↑ Michelle King, Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China , Stanford University Press, 2014 ISBN 9780804788939 , accessed December 29, 2017
5. ↑ W. John Young, William E. Soothill ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity, accessed December 29, 2017 
6. ^ Dubs, Homer H. , Oxford University Press, April 2014, accessed December 29, 2017
7. ^ David Hawkes , The Guardian, August 25, 2009, accessed December 29, 2017
8. ↑ Prof. Piet van der Loon , Oxford University Press, April 2014, accessed December 29, 2017
9. ↑ Prof. Glen Dudbridge , Oxford University Press, November 2014, accessed December 29, 2017
10. ↑ Timothy Brook ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, accessed December 29, 2017 
11. ↑ Appointments ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Oxford University Gazette, University of Oxford, June 21, 2012, accessed December 29, 2017