CHAIR IN CHINESE

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30741, 4 May 1965, Page 8

CHAIR IN CHINESE

Asian Studies In Auckland “The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, MAY 3. The first ste p in the University of Auckland programme of Asian studies has been made with the appointment of Mr D. Lancashire to a chair in Chinese and headship of the newly-established department of Asian studies. Uncashire will probably take up the chair after completion of the academic year at the University of Melbourne, where he has been senior lecturer in the department of oriental studies since 1962. Aged 38 and of British nationality, Mr Lancashire was born in Tientsin, China. From 1945 to 1947 he was instructor in Chinese at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. During the next seven years he gave courses in the general field of philosophy and religion at Ch’ung Chi College, now part of the new Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also served as oral examiner for the civil service examinations in Chinese (military division). In 1961 Mr Lancashire was invited to teach at the University of Michigan, where he was responsible for a Chinese language course and for two courses covering the whole field of Chinese thought and religion. His research for his M.A. degree was centred on classical Chinese literature and history, but he also carried out work on Buddhism.