About Us
Tony Fairbank holds a Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of Washington (1994) and has been studying Chinese history, literature, and thought since 1975. He is a translator and a teacher of things Chinese, and things Buddhist (and Taoist and Persian).
Dr. Fairbank has had his translations published by Yale University Press and Stanford’s Cantor Center for Visual Arts. A resident of Concord, Massachusetts, he is now working on translations from a seventh-century Chinese text called the Jin shu, The History of the Jin Dynasty (266-420). Please see the “Jin shu Studies” page in the main menu above for more information on this text.
ABF Curriculum Vitae
Born: Lake Forest, Illinois, USA, October, 1956.
BA, History and Chinese Language, Tufts University
MA Chinese History, University of Washington
Ph.D. Chinese History, University of Washington
MA Buddhist Classics, Dharma Realm Buddhist University
Traveled to Irān twice (2010-2011) (ABF at Persepolis, 2010->)
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