John Jamieson

John Jamieson received his Ph.D. (Oriental Languages, 1969) from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught courses in Chinese language and literature and graduate seminars in Tang-Song and Korean texts at Berkeley from 1967 until early retirement in 1994. In 1991 he joined the faculty at The Chinese University of Hong Kong where he served, through 2002, as Director of the Yale-China Chinese Language Center and Visiting Professor of East Asian Studies. During 2003-2008, he developed and directed the UC Center in China (Shanghai). He has held research fellowships at Harvard, Cambridge, Kyoto and Peking Universities, and the Jilin Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests remain focused on late Tang through Liao-Jin China and interaction with Japan and the Korean Peninsula. His most recent book length publication is Kong Fu – An Elementary Chinese Text (two volumes, with Lin Tao, The Chinese University Press, 2002). He lives in retirement in China where he is a member of the Liao Jin Society and the China Ceramics Society.