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}}William (Bill) John Francis Jenner ({{zh|t=詹纳尓}}; born 1940) is an English sinologist, specialising in Chinese history and culture, and translator of Chinese literature. Biography From 1958 to 1962 Jenner studied sinology at Oxford and wrote his dissertation about the history of Luoyang in the 5th and 6th century. His first wife was the China scholar Delia Davin.[1] From 1963 to 1965 he worked as a translator at Foreign Languages Press in Beijing. There he translated From Emperor to Citizen, an "autobiography" of the last Emperor of China, Puyi, and started translating the novel Journey to the West into English. Since 1965 he taught at the University of Leeds, Australian National University and the University of East Anglia. From 1979 to 1985 Jenner travelled to China every summer, and worked on the translation of Journey to the West and other works, for example by Lu Xun. He has written about the process and politics of translating and publishing Journey to the West in an essay published in the Los Angeles Review of Books (3 Feb 2016).[2] His most recent project is The History of China in two volumes. Jenner has two daughters and one son. Partial bibliography Translations - {{cite book | last = Cheng'en | first = Wu | author-link = Wu Cheng'en | others = W.J.F. Jenner (translator) | title = Journey to the West | publisher = Foreign Languages Press | location = Beijing | year = }}
- {{cite book | last = Xun | first = Lu | author-link = Lu Xun | others = W.J.F. Jenner (translator) | title = Selected Poems | publisher = Foreign Languages Press | location = Beijing | year = 1982 }}
- {{cite book | last = Ling | first = Ding | author-link = Ding Ling | others = W.J.F. Jenner (translator) | title = Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories | publisher = Panda Books / Chinese Literature Press | location = Beijing | year = 1985 }}
- {{cite book | last = Various | others = W.J.F. Jenner (translator) and Gladys Yang (translator) | title = Modern Chinese Stories | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = | year = 1970 }}
- {{cite book | last = Various | others = W.J.F. Jenner (translator), Delia Davin (translator) and Cheng Lingfang (translator) | title = Chinese Lives. An Oral History of Contemporary China | publisher = Pantheon | location = New York | year = 1987 }}
- {{cite book | last = Pu Yi | first = Aisin-Gioro | others = W.J.F. Jenner (translator) | title = From Emperor to Citizen. The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = | year = 1987 }}
{{cite book | last = Pu Yi | first = Aisin-Gioro | others = W.J.F. Jenner (translator) | title = From Emperor to Citizen. The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi | publisher = Foreign Languages Press | location = Beijing | year = 1992 }}
- {{cite book | last = Leping | first = Zhang | others = W.J.F. Jenner (translator) and C.M. Chan (translator) | title = Adventures of Sanmao the Orphan | publisher = Joint Publications | location = Hong Kong | year = 1981 }}
- {{cite book| last= Jen |first=Yu-wen| author-link = Jian Youwen | title=The Taiping Revolutionary Movement|year=1969}}
Monographies - {{cite book | last = Jenner | first = W.J.F. | title = Memories of Loyang. Yang Hsüan-chih and the Lost Capital, 493–534 | publisher = Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press | location = Oxford / New York | year = 1981 }}
- {{cite book | last = Jenner | first = W.J.F. | title = The Tyranny of History. The Roots of China's Crisis | publisher = Penguin | location = London | year = 1992 }}
- {{cite book | last = Jenner | first = W.J.F. | title = A Knife in My Ribs for a Mate. Reflections on Another Chinese Tradition | publisher = Australian National University | location = Canberra | year = 1993 }}
Articles - {{Cite journal | last = Jenner | first = W.J.F. | title = Race and History in China | journal = New Left Review | volume = II | issue = 11 | date = September–October 2001 | url = http://newleftreview.org/II/11/w-j-f-jenner-race-and-history-in-china | ref = harv }}
- {{Cite journal | last = Jenner | first = W.J.F. | title = 1979: A New Start for Literature in China? | journal = The China Quarterly | volume = 86 | pages = 274–303 | doi = 10.1017/S0305741000028460 | date = June 1981 | ref = harv }}
- {{Cite journal | last = Jenner | first = W.J.F. | title = Introduction to Mao's "Letter to Comrade Lin Piao" | journal = New Left Review | volume = I | issue = 65 | date = January–February 1971 | url = http://newleftreview.org/I/65/w-j-f-jenner-introduction-to-mao-s-letter-to-comrade-lin-piao | ref = harv }}
- {{Cite journal | last = Jenner | first = W.J.F. | title = The New Chinese Revolution | journal = New Left Review | volume = I | issue = 53 | date = January–February 1969 | url = http://newleftreview.org/I/53/w-j-f-jenner-the-new-chinese-revolution | ref = harv }}
- {{Cite journal | last = Jenner | first = W.J.F. | title = History in the Manufacture | journal = New Left Review | volume = I | issue = 41 | date = January–February 1967 | url = http://newleftreview.org/I/41/w-j-f-jenner-history-in-the-manufacture | ref = harv }}
- {{Cite journal | last = Jenner | first = W.J.F. | title = China Today | journal = New Left Review | volume = I | issue = 17 | date = Winter 1962 | url = http://newleftreview.org/I/17/w-j-f-jenner-china-today | ref = harv }}
{{Authority control}}References1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/16/delia-davin-obituary|title=Delia Davin obituary|last=Gittings|first=John|date=16 October 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-10-18}}
2. ^[https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/journeys-to-the-east-journey-to-the-west Journeys to the East, “Journey to the West” – Los Angeles Review of Books]
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