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Wilt L. Idema (born 12 November 1944) is a Dutch scholar and Sinologist who taught at University of Leiden and Harvard University (2000–13), presently emeritus at both universities. He specializes in Chinese literature, with interests in early Chinese drama, Chinese women's literature of the premodern period, Chinese popular narrative ballads, and early development of Chinese vernacular fiction. He and his wife have two children. Academic career Idema took his undergraduate degree from Leiden University, Department of Chinese Languages & Cultures in 1968. He then studied in the Department of Sociology, Hokudai University, Sapporo, Japan in 1968- 1969 and the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University. April 1, 1969 –March 31, 1970; Universities Service Center, Hong Kong. Summer 1970. He took his doctoral degree at Leyden University 30 October 1974, where his thesis, Chinese Vernacular Fiction,the Formative Period, was completed under the direction of A.F.P. Hulsewé. Idema then taught at his alma mater in the Department of Chinese Language and Culture. He was promoted to Professor of Chinese Literature and Linguistics in 1976. At Leiden at various times he was Chairman of the Department of Chinese Languages & Culture; Vice-dean for Educational Matters, School of Humanities; Dean, School of Humanities; Director, Centre for Non-Western Studies; Dean, School of Humanities. He has been Visiting Professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of California at Berkeley, and École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. Since 2000, he has been Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. Among his professional positions are Co-editor T'oung Pao, 1993-1999; Editor Sinica Leidensia, 1997-2006; Editor Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 2000-2003. In 2009, colleagues published a volume of studies in his honor, Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema. The Introduction says that Idema "masterfully integrates translation with cultural-historical contextualization, in what over the years has become a uniquely recognizable style." They commented that his body of work "is exceptional in its inclusiveness and its ability to let different historical periods, genres and issues speak to one another." The bibliography "is something of an explosion of language" and "its fairly shocking physical length is only one indicator of what Wilt's work means to our field, for this is not just a function of the encyclopedic scope of his knowledge, or his sheer productivity, or even of the quality and the ambition of his work." In a review of the field of Chinese literature, Robert E. Hegel declared "Wilt L. Idema's studies in Chinese Vernacular Fiction: The Formative Period are definitive statements on vernacular literature in general, on the short story, and on the long pinghua. His most frequent co-author has been Stephen H. West. Idema was the 1992 Winner of the Martinus Nijhoff Vertaalprijs (Dutch National Translation Award). Idema was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. In 2015, Idema was one of twenty Sinologists to win the 9th Special Book Award of China, a national-level award set up by General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP). Publications Partial listing: China's Educational Revolution. in John Gardner (ed.), Authority, Participation and Cultural Change in China Cambridge University Press, (1973). pp. 257–89. "Storytelling and the Short Story in China," T'oung Pao LIX (1973): 1 - 67. . Chinese Vernacular Fiction, the Formative Period, Sinica Leidensia Xiii. (Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1974). Google Books "Some Remarks and Speculations Concerning P'ing-Hua," T'oung Pao LX (1974): 121 - 72. . Feng Meng-Long, De Drie Woorden, Vijf Chinese Novellen, Vert. En Ingel. Door W.L. Idema, Oosterse Bibliotheek Deel 2. (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1976). ISBN "Stage and Court in China: The Case of Hung-Wu's Imperial Theatre," Oriens Extremus XXIII (1976): 175-90. . Verzinsels Zijn Geen Letterkunde. Het Literatuurbegrip in Het Traditionele China, Oratie. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976). ISBN "Diseases and Doctors, Drugs and Cures. A Very Preliminary List of Passages of Medical Interest in a Number of Traditional Chinese Novels and Related Plays," Chinese Science II (1977): 37 - 63. . Hanshan, Gedichten Van De Koude Berg, Zen-Poëzie, Vert. Envan Nawoord Voorzien Door W.L. Idema, Chinese Bibliotheek Deel 8. (Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers, 1977). ISBN "The Mystery of the Halved Judge Dee Novel," Tamkang Review VIII (1977): 155 - 70. "Performance and Construction of the Chu-Kung-Tiao," Journal of Oriental Studies XVI (1978): 63 - 78. . Pu Songling, De Beschilderde Huid. Spookverhalen, Vert. Uithet Chinees En Ingel. Door W.L. Idema, B.J. Mansvelt Beck, N.H. Van Straten, Oosterse Bibliotheek Deel 9. (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1978). ISBN . Vinger Gods, Wat Zijt Gij Groot. Een Bloemlezing Uit Het Werk Van De Domineedichters Nicolaas Beets, J.P. Hasebroek, Bernard Ter Haar, J.J.L. Ten Kate, Eliza Laurillard, Samengest. En Ingel. Door Anton Korteweg En . (Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers, 1978). W.L. Idema, Aad Nuis and D.W. Fokkema. ed., Oosterse Literatuur. Een Inleiding Tot De Oosterse Bibliotheek. (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1979). ISBN "Shih Chün-Pao's and Chu Yu-Tun's Ch'ü-Chiang Ch'ih. The Variety of Mode within Form," T'oung Pao LXVI (1980): 217 - 65. "Zhu Youdun's Dramatic Prefaces and Traditional Fiction," Ming Studies X (1980): 17 - 21. "Dutch Sinology and the Study of Chinese Traditional Vernacular Fiction," Zhongguo gudian xiaoshuo yanjiu zhuanji III (1981): 25-40. "The Wen-Ching Yüan-Yang Hui and the Chia-Men of Ming-Ch'ing Ch'uan-Ch'i," T'oung Pao LXVII (1981): 91-106. with Stephen H. West . Chinese Theater 1100-1450. A Source Book. Münchener Ostasiatische Studien. Steiner, 1982. ISBN . Bai Xingjian, Het Hoogste Genot, Vert., Ingel. En Toegel. Door W.L. Idema, Cahiers Van De Lantaarn No. 19. (Leiden: De Lantaarn, 1983). ISBN . De Vorsten Van Het Woord. Teksten over Dichterschap En Poëzie Uit Oosterse Tradities. Studies En Vertalingen, De Oosterse Bibliotheek Deel 21. (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1983). ISBN "The Illusion of Fiction," CLEAR V (1983): 47 - 51. . Mijnheer Dong, Het Verhaal Van De Westerkamers in Alle Toonaarden, Uit Het Chinees Vert. En Ingel. Door W.L. Idema, Deoosterse Bibliotheek Deel 22. (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1984). ISBN "The Story of Ssu-Ma Hsiang-Ju and Cho Wen-Chün in Vernacular Literature of the Yüan and Early Ming Dynasties," T'oung Pao LXX (1984): 60 - 109. "Yüan-Pen as a Minor Form of Dramatic Literature in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries," CLEAR VI (1984): 53 -75. . Zingend Roei Ik Huiswaarts Op De Maan, Gedichten Van Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Li Taibai, Du Fu En Bai Juyi, Uit Het Chinees Vert. (Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers, 1984). . 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