In this talk, Prof. John Minford will be sharing his ongoing work on his forthcoming autobiography, named after his Garden of Winding Paths in New Zealand.

Prof. John Minford
As a sinologist and literary translator, Prof. John Minford is primarily known for his translations of Chinese classics such as The Story of the Stone, The Art of War, I Ching, Tao Te Ching, and Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. He graduated from Oxford in 1968 with a First Class Honours degree in Chinese Studies and for the subsequent 15 years worked closely with David Hawkes on the Penguin Classics version of The Story of the Stone, translating the last forty chapters. He later spent an extended period teaching translation and Chinese literature at universities in mainland China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia. Apart from Chinese classical texts, Prof. John Minford is also a prolific translator, essayist, reviewer, and editor of various genres in Chinese literature, including lyric poems, new writings, and modern poems. In 2016, Prof. John Minford received the Medal for Excellence in Translation Award from the Australian Academy of Humanities (AAH). He is now Emeritus Professor of Australia National University, Sin Wai Kin Distinguished Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Translation Society.