翻訳と辞書
Words near each other
・ Frances Whitmore
・ Frances Wick
・ Frances Willard
・ Frances Willard (magician)
・ Frances Willard (suffragist)
・ Frances Willard House
・ Frances Willard House (Evanston, Illinois)
・ Frances Willard Schoolhouse
・ Frances Williams
・ Frances Wilson
・ Frances Wilson (writer)
・ Frances Wilson Grayson
・ Frances Winfield
・ Frances Winwar
・ Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Frances Wood
・ Frances Wood (disambiguation)
・ Frances Wright
・ Frances Wright (disambiguation)
・ Frances Wynne
・ Frances Xavier Cabrini
・ Frances Yao
・ Frances Yeend
・ Frances Yip
・ Frances Young
・ Frances Yung
・ Frances's sparrowhawk
・ Frances, Indiana
・ Frances, Kentucky
・ Frances, South Australia


Dictionary Lists
翻訳と辞書 辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ]
スポンサード リンク

Frances Wood : ウィキペディア英語版
Frances Wood

Frances Wood (Chinese name Wú Fāngsī 吴芳思; born 1948) is an English librarian, sinologue and historian known for her writings on Chinese history, including Marco Polo, life in the Chinese treaty ports, and the First Emperor of China.
== Biography ==
Wood was born in London in the 1948, and went to art school in Liverpool in 1967, before going to Newnham College, Cambridge University where she studied Chinese. She went to China to study Chinese at Peking University in 1975–1976.
Wood joined the staff of the British Library in London in 1977 as a junior curator, and later served as Curator of Chinese collections until her retirement in 2013. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the International Dunhuang Project, and the editor of the ''Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society''.〔 She was also a Governor of Ashmount Primary School for 20 years. relinguishing this post on the completion of her current term of office in July 2014.
She has argued in her 1995 book, ''Did Marco Polo go to China?'', that the book of Marco Polo (''Il Milione'') is not the account of a single person, but is a collection of travellers' tales.
In May 2012, she appeared on In Our Time on Radio Four, talking about Marco Polo. In December 2012 she appeared on the Christmas University Challenge special as a member of the Newnham College, Cambridge team.

抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)
ウィキペディアで「Frances Wood」の詳細全文を読む



スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース

Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.