Curriculum Vitae

Education:

• M.A. Charles University in Prague, 1955, specialization: sinology
  MA thesis: ‘Guo Moruo: His Life and Work until 1927’
• Visiting graduate student: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 1958-59
  Supervisor: Prof Wu Xiaoling 吳曉玲, Institute of Literature 文學研究所
• PhD Oriental Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1964
  Doctoral dissertation: ‘Zhugongdiao 諸宮調: Ballads of Chinese Storytellers'
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Průšek        

Employment:

• 1955-1968: Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences. Research Associate and Head of the Chinese Lu Xun魯迅Library.
• [Leave of absence 1965-1968].
• 1967-1968: University of Michigan, Centre for Chinese Studies Research Associate.
• 1969-1996: University of Toronto, Department of East Asian Studies. Associate Professor (1969-1972). Full Professor (1972-1996).
• 1984-1985: The University of Cambridge, U.K. Corpus Christi College. Senior visiting scholar.
• 1985 (June 4-July2): The Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio Resident scholar.
• 1990-1991: Harvard University, John K. Fairbank Research Center for East Asian Visiting Scholar.
• 1996-2000: Charles University in Prague, Institute of East Asian Studies. Visiting Professor.
• 1996- Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto.
• 2005- Research Associate, Heidelberg University, Institute of Chinese Studies.