名人志:那些年我们念念不忘的刘教授

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1. 41届香港青年文学奖 翻译文学公开组 名人志:那些年我们念念不忘的刘教授 - 2014.8 About Writer 节选 (by Hugh Baker, 2010) To a previous generation of students at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Lau Din Cheuk was known as “Library Lau”, but when I first became his student in 1958 he was “Mr Lau”, and then when I joined the SOAS staff in 1967 I discovered that by colleagues he was referred to and addressed simply as “Lau”.  In 1965 he was promoted to Reader in Chinese Philosophy, and in 1970 he succeeded Denis Twitchett as Professor of Chinese in the University of London, the first Chinese ever to bear the title, not only in London University, but in any university in the United Kingdom.   (The only previous contender was Chen Yinke, who was offered the Chair of Oxford in 1938, but did not take up the position.)…