Imre Galambos

Imre Galambos at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Saint Petersburg, July 2010

Imre Galambos (born 1967; Chinese name 高奕睿, pinyin Gāo Yìruì) is a Hungarian Sinologist and Tangutologist who specialises in the study of medieval Chinese and Tangut manuscripts from Dunhuang. He is currently a Reader in Chinese Studies at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.^[1]

Biography

Galambos was born in Szőny, Hungary in 1967, and studied at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.^[2] After graduating with an MA in 1994 he went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2002 he was awarded a PhD, with a dissertation on Chinese writing during the Warring States period.^[3]

Galambos worked at the British Library in London, England from 2002 to 2012, where he was a member of the team working on the International Dunhuang Project. During this time he specialised in the study of Dunhuang manuscripts, and collaborated with Sam van Schaik on a study of a Dunhuang manuscript comprising the letters of a 10th-century Chinese Buddhist monk on pilgrimage from China to India.^[4] Whilst at the British Library he also published studies on The General's Garden and other Tangut translations of Chinese military treatises.

Since 2012 Galambos has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches pre-modern Chinese Studies.^[5]

Works

• 2012. "Consistency in Tangut Translations of Chinese Military Texts". In Irina Popova (ed.), Тангуты в Центральной Азии: сборник статей в честь 80-летия проф. Е.И.Кычанова [Tanguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. E. I. Kychanov] pp. 84–96. Moscow: Oriental Literature. ISBN 978-5-02-036505-6
• 2011. With Sam van Schaik. Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-90-04-18203-5
• 2011. "The northern neighbors of the Tangut"; in Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale 40: 69–104.
• 2011. "The Tangut translation of the General’s Garden by Zhuge Liang"; in Written Monuments of the Orient 14(1): 131–142.
• 2008. "A 10th-century manuscript from Dunhuang concerning the Gantong monastery at Liangzhou"; Tonkō Shahon Kenkyū Nenpō (敦煌寫本研究年報) 2: 63–82.
• 2006. Orthography of Early Chinese Writing: Evidence from Newly Excavated Manuscripts (490–221 BC). Budapest Monographs in East Asian Studies. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University.

External links

• Chinese manuscripts — Galambos' academic blog

References