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called Davis "a fine scholar, sensitive, imaginative and exceptionally learned. He was also in his quiet and friendly way a builder, whose achievements are bequeathed to the world of scholarship, to his colleagues and to the reputation of his Department and adopted University."
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Louie, Kam. "From orientalists to bent bananas: Australasian research in Chinese literature in the last 50 years." Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 100.1 (2003):
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Chey, Jocelyn. "A reflection on the importance of Tang poetry and the life's work of Dr Margaret South (1926-2016)." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, The 50 (2018): 22-26.
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at ANU, Davis substantially "shaped the tenor and direction of research into Chinese literature and studies for the next twenty-five years." In 1958, he delivered the 20th
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Lee, Mabel. "AR Davis memorial lecture, 2018: On the creative aesthetics of Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, The 50 (2018): 1-21.
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Lee, Mabel. "AR Davis memorial lecture, 2018: On the creative aesthetics of Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, The 50 (2018): 1-21.
223: 228: 27:. The Chair of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney for over a quarter-century, he was a major figure in the development of Asian Studies in Australia. 77: 46:, "At the time of his appointment he was the youngest professor in Australia, and the head of the oldest department of Asian studies." The founder of the 233: 161:
Chey, Jocelyn. "Laughing down the ages: A brief history of humour in China." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, The 45 (2013): 1-18.
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Davis, Albert R. "The narrow lane: some observations on the recluse in traditional Chinese society ." East Asian History 11 (1996): 33-44.
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1946–1948, graduating with First Class Honours. After teaching at Cambridge for some years, he became Chair of Oriental Studies at the
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is given in his honour and a postgraduate research scholarship in Chinese or Japanese at the University of Sydney named after him.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Fri 2 Dec 1983 Page 10 OBITUARY: Albert Richard Davis
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John Ward. In Memoriam A.R. Davis. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, 7:3, 89-90, D
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in 1955, becoming one of the leading academics in Asian Studies in Australia. According to
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His students at the University of Sydney included the literary scholars and translators
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Stefanowska, A. D. "In memoriam: AR Davis 1924–1983." (1984): 17-18.
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Professor Albert Richard ('Bertie') Davis (1924-1983) was born in
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to the United Kingdom, Davis also authored scholarly studies of
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as a translator of Japanese, Davis studied Chinese at the
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Dorking
Sydney
Royal Navy
University of Cambridge
University of Sydney
Rafe de Crespigny
Oriental Society of Australia
Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia
Ian Nish
Tao Yuanming
Du Fu
Mitsuharu Kaneko
Liu Ts'un-yan
George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology
John Manning Ward
Mabel Lee
Bonnie S. McDougall
Jocelyn Milner Chey
Margaret South
A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture
Categories
1924 births
1983 deaths
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Royal Navy personnel of World War II
British emigrants to Australia

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