Endymion Wilkinson
Endymion Wilkinson | |||||||
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Wilkinson holding the two heavy volumes of his sixth edition | |||||||
| Born | 15 May 1941 Lewes, England | ||||||
| Education | King's College, Cambridge (BA, MA) Princeton University (PhD) | ||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||
| Fields | Sinology, Japanopology, Southeast Asian studies | ||||||
| Institutions | SOAS, University of London European Commission Harvard University Peking University | ||||||
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| Chinese | 魏根深 | ||||||
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Endymion Porter Wilkinson (born 15 May 1941) is a British sinologist and diplomat who served as the European Union Ambassador to China and Mongolia from 1994 to 2001. He is particularly noted for Chinese History: A New Manual, an authoritative guide to Sinology and Chinese history covering topics, primary sources, and scholarship from earliest times to 1976. The Manual has been continuously in print from its first appearance in 1973 to the Seventh edition (2025). The Third edition won the Prix Stanislas Julien in 2014 and in 2016 Peking University Press published a three-volume Chinese-language edition. The current edition is digitally published in EPUB format, making it easy for the author to update and for readers to consult on different screen sizes from smartphones to desktop computers.