Denis Twitchett
British sinologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Denis Crispin Twitchett was a British Sinologist and historian, and is well known as one of the co-editors of The Cambridge History of China. Biography Denis Twitchett was born on 23 September 1925 in London, England, the son of an architectural draughtsman, and attended Isleworth County Grammar School. During World War II he took a crash course in Japanese, and for the remainder of the war he was part of the Bletchley Park operations acting as a listener at one of the forward listening stations in Sri Lanka. He also spent a great deal of time in Japan, and was able to learn from the best Japanese historians of China . Following demobilisation he read Modern Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London for a year . Having won a scholarship to read Geography in 1943 while still a school pupil, he then took up his place at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, whence he graduated with a first-class degree in Oriental Studies in 1950.
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