Staff profile
Overview
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Mr Don Starr
Assistant Professor (Teaching) / Director of Studies (Chinese and Japanese) / Co-Director MA in Translation Studies
Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Assistant Professor (Teaching) / Director of Studies (Chinese and Japanese) / Co-Director MA in Translation Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures | A25, Elvet Riverside I | +44 (0) 191 33 43225 |
Member of the Centre for Intercultural Mediation | +44 (0) 191 33 43225 |
Research interests
- Chinese literature
- Classical and modern Chinese language
Research groups
- Translation/Linguistics/Pedagogy
Esteem Indicators
- 2013: Editor of JBACS (Journal of British Association of Chinese Studies):
- 2005: President of the British Association for Chinese Studies [until 2008]:
Media Contacts
Available for media contact about:
- International: Language, literature, culture: Chinese
- Asia (excluding Middle East): China
Publications
Authored book
- Starr, Don, Barnes, Archie & Ormerod, Graham (2009). Du’s Handbook of Classical Chinese Grammar. Oxford: Alcuin Academics.
Chapter in book
- Starr, Don (2010). Eight Album Leaves Attributed to Gong Xian (1618-1689). In Treasures of the Oriental Museum Durham University. Barclay, Craig, Grocke, Rachel & Armstrong, Helen Durham University and Third Millennium Publishing. 36-39.
Journal Article
- Starr, Don (2013). 新闻中的孔子:近三百年来英国报纸中的孔子形象 (Confucius in the News: Images of Confucius in Three Centuries of British Newspapers). World Sinology 12: 42-54.
- Starr, Don (2012). China and the Confucian Education Model. Universitas21 1-27.
- Starr, Don (2012). A Taste of Chinese. Liaison Magazine (7): 38-40.
- Starr, Don (2012). 理雅各及其翻译艺术:以《孟子》译本为例 (English title “James Legge and the Art of Translation”). World Sinology 8: 124-134.
- Starr, Don (2009). Chinese Language Education in Europe: The Confucius Institutes. European Journal of Education 44(1): 65-82.
Supervision students
Mr. Haoshen He
PhD Research
Ms. Junyi Mao
PhD Research