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刘殿爵 D.C.Lau Brief Introduction Professor DC Lau, who has died aged 89, was a renowned scholar of Chinese philosophy and culture. Among his published works, the authoritative Penguin translations of the core Chinese classics – the Lao Tzu (published in 1963), the Mencius (1970), and the Analects of Confucius (1979) – are unequalled in their sales and popularity, and have done much to foster western literacy in the Chinese philosophical literature. Reading philosophy at Glasgow（格拉斯大学）, and gaining a first, he continued his studies in ordinary language philosophy and came under the influence of the Oxford philosophy of Gilbert Ryle(吉尔伯特赖尔 ). Ryles work is distinguished by the pursuit of philosophical clarity through the application of subtle linguistic and conceptual distinctions, an identifiable feature of the popular Lau translations of the early Chinese canonical texts. Din Cheuk Lau was born in Hong Kong, son of Lau King Tong（刘伯端）, a scholar and poet who had fled from the chaotic civil wars raging on the mainland to settle under the more peaceful conditions of the British colony of Hong Kong. Attending school at Kings college there, Lau later graduated from the Chinese department at the University of Hong Kong under the tutelage of Professors Hsu Ti-shan and Ma Kiam. He fled to mainland China just before the Japanese occupied Hong Kong after a fierce battle in 1941, and there suffered greatly but survived. In 1946 Lau won a scholarship to become one of the first Hong Kong students to sail to Britain in the postwar era. In 1950 Lau accepted a lectureship at the?School of Oriental and African Studies , London University（伦敦大学亚非学院），where he taught a whole generation of students, and where, together with AC Graham, Paul Thompson and Sarah Allan, he made Soas a world centre for the study of Chinese philosophy. Recognized for the many scholarly articles and translations that made the name of Lau omnipresent in the western sinological literature, he quic