{"id":32269,"date":"2020-01-23T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/?page_id=32269"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:33:13","slug":"professor-john-minford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/academics\/honorary-professors-and-adjunct-professors\/professor-john-minford\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor John MINFORD"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"32269\" class=\"elementor elementor-32269\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1ba7748 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1ba7748\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-33cd6c2\" data-id=\"33cd6c2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-82627fc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"82627fc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-5c8b061\" data-id=\"5c8b061\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-877aa96 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"877aa96\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sin Wai Kin Honarary Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation<\/h5>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1631bf9\" data-id=\"1631bf9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0e7aa5 elementor-align-right elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"d0e7aa5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academics\/honorary-professors-and-adjunct-professors\/\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-sm\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon elementor-align-icon-left\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-angle-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">back<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-8c66621 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8c66621\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-fc43cfe\" data-id=\"fc43cfe\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7ba8b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d7ba8b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p>Professor John Minford is a world-renowned sinologist and literary translator. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1968 with a First Class Honours degree in Chinese Studies. Over the subsequent 15 years he worked closely with David Hawkes on the Penguin Classics version of the 18th-century novel\u00a0<em>The Story of the Stone<\/em>\u00a0\u7d05\u6a13\u5922, translating the last forty chapters. He went to Canberra in 1977 and studied for his PhD under the late Liu Ts\u2019unyan \u67f3\u5b58\u4ec1. He went on to translate for Penguin a selection from Pu Songling\u2019s\u00a0<em>Strange Tales<\/em>\u00a0\u804a\u9f4b\u5fd7\u7570 and Sunzi\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Art of War<\/em>\u00a0\u5b6b\u5b50\u5175\u6cd5. His most recent work, a translation of the famous Chinese divination text, the<em>\u00a0I Ching<\/em>\u00a0\u6613\u7d93, was published in October 2014 by Penguin Books.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-e3dc872\" data-id=\"e3dc872\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d620f5c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d620f5c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ProfessorJohnMinford.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Professor John Minford\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ProfessorJohnMinford.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ProfessorJohnMinford-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ProfessorJohnMinford-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sin Wai Kin Honarary Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation back Professor John Minford is a world-renowned sinologist and literary translator. 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