Chinese Culture Series Publication
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From the early 1960's until he sadly passed away in 2015, William Dolby beaverishly translated and researched Classical Chinese drama, poetry and literature, and above and beyond his world renowned work of 'A History of Chinese Drama' he silently produced a tall mountain of other superb works which he titled the "Chinese Culture Series".
As a well respected professor and lecturer in Classical Chinese at the University of Edinburgh he was one of the true masters in the subject, in fact many Chinese themselves have acknowledged that Bill surpassed their own in the depth and scope of his knowledge and in his ability to share and discuss his subject, unreservedly and passionately, with those who would take the time to listen.
In order to preserve these works for future generations, and in recognition of a nearly extinct breed of expertise, a website has been created at http://www.williamdolby.com. The idea behind this website is to allow future students, peers and researchers to benefit from his great work, and should a profit ever be generated for a 'grant' to be created to assist students following in a similar course of study.
However, in order to meet the demands of modern research and readers these books need to be digitised and made available in various eBook formats. This is no small task, and with full recognition that the creation of so many publications will take considerable time and resources. The plan is therefore to obtain funding to initiate such a project; to allow devotion to the creation as a full-time project rather than as a peicemeal exercise which would not do justice to the intended result.
Once completed the many eBooks produced would then be available to the world to share openly at far lower cost.
This is how my father, William Dolby, would have wanted it.
As a well respected professor and lecturer in Classical Chinese at the University of Edinburgh he was one of the true masters in the subject, in fact many Chinese themselves have acknowledged that Bill surpassed their own in the depth and scope of his knowledge and in his ability to share and discuss his subject, unreservedly and passionately, with those who would take the time to listen.
In order to preserve these works for future generations, and in recognition of a nearly extinct breed of expertise, a website has been created at http://www.williamdolby.com. The idea behind this website is to allow future students, peers and researchers to benefit from his great work, and should a profit ever be generated for a 'grant' to be created to assist students following in a similar course of study.
However, in order to meet the demands of modern research and readers these books need to be digitised and made available in various eBook formats. This is no small task, and with full recognition that the creation of so many publications will take considerable time and resources. The plan is therefore to obtain funding to initiate such a project; to allow devotion to the creation as a full-time project rather than as a peicemeal exercise which would not do justice to the intended result.
Once completed the many eBooks produced would then be available to the world to share openly at far lower cost.
This is how my father, William Dolby, would have wanted it.
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Ieuan Dolby
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