A. C. Graham
Angus Charles Graham, FBA was a Welsh scholar and sinologist who was professor of classical Chinese at the School of Oriental and [African Studies, University of London].
He was born in Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales to Charles Harold and Mabelle Graham, the elder of two children. His father was originally a coal merchant who moved to Malaya to start a rubber plantation, and died in 1928 of malaria. Graham attended Ellesmore College, Shropshire, 1932–1937, and went on to read Theology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In 1950 he was appointed lecturer in Classical Chinese at SOAS, promoted to professor in 1971, and to professor emeritus after his retirement in 1984. He lived in Borehamwood.
He also held visiting positions at Hong Kong University, Yale University, the University of Michigan, the Society of Humanities at Cornell University, the Institute of East Asian Philosophies in Singapore, National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, Brown University, and the University of Hawaiʻi. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1981.
Main publications
- Later Mohist Logic
- Chuang-tzu: The Inner Chapters
- The Book of Lieh-tzu
- Disputers of the Tao: philosophical argument in ancient China
- Poems of the West Lake, translations from the Chinese
- Chuang-tzu: The Inner Chapters and other Writings from the Book of Chuang-tzu
- Divisions in early Mohism reflected in the core chapters of Mo-tzu
- Chuang-tzu: textual notes to a partial translation
- Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science
- Poems of the Late T'ang
- The Book of Lieh-tzu, a new translation
- 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, volume 42, number 1, 1978, pages 66–100. Reprinted in Graham A.C. Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature. State [University of New York Press], 1986.
Festschrift
- ''Having a Word with Angus Graham: At Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality''