Arthur Waley
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1889 – 1966
Who was Arthur Waley?
Arthur David Waley, CH, CBE was an English orientalist and sinologist.
As one recent evaluation puts it, "Waley was the great transmitter of the high literary cultures of China and Japan to the English-reading general public; the ambassador from East to West in the first half of the 20th century. He was self-taught, but reached remarkable levels of fluency, even erudition, in both languages. It was a unique achievement, possible only in that time, and unlikely to be repeated."
His importance for raising awareness and scholarly attention to the English speaking world is considered immense, reaching a wider popular readership with later re-publications in classics series.
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