Edwin McClellan

Edwin McClellan (1925- ) is a British academic and renowned translator of Japanese literature.

McClellan was born in Kobe, Japan, to a Japanese mother and a British father. In 1942, during World War II, McClellan returned to Britain and taught Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London before joining the Royal Air Force. Between 1944 and 1948, he served as an intelligence liaison officer in Washington, D.C. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1948 to attend St Andrews University and then moved to the University of Chicago as a doctoral student in the Committee on Social Thought. His doctoral dissertation, "An Introduction to Sōseki, a Japanese Novelist," was a study of the life of Natsume Sōseki (1867-1919) and some of his writings. This early work included a narrative of the novelist's background and an anlysis of his major novels. [Schulman, Frank Joseph. (1970). [http://books.google.com/books?id=XNjRd1RYvrcC&pg=PA192&vq=edwin+mcclellan&dq=harold+bolitho+australia&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=ScIvzD5T3q0PrsIidyCfn6TraPo "Japan and Korea: An Annotated Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations in Western Languages, 1877-1969." p. 192.] (McClellan 1653)]

Academic career

McClellan became a member of the Chicago faculty in 1957, teaching English until 1960 when he was invited to create a program in Japanese studies. He went to Yale University in 1972 where he served as chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures from 1973-82 and from 1988-91. He was named Sterling Professor of Japanese Literature in 1999. The Sterling chair is the highest honor the University can bestow on a member of the faculty. The professorship is made possible by income from the 1918 endowment of $15-million from John W. Sterling (class of 1864); and it includes annual research funding. [Fellman, Bruce. (1999). "How Sterling Professors Get That Way, "Yale Alumni Magazine." February. [http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/99_02/sterling.html ...YAM online] ]

McClellan served as director-at-large of the American Oriental Society and as a consultant for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977 and was honored with the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 1998.

His awards include the Kikuchi Kan Prize for literature in 1994; the Noma Literary Translation Prize in 1995; and the Association for Asian Studies Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies in 2005.

A "festschrift" was published in his honor by the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. [http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/publications/monograph%20links/20.%20Studies%20in%20Modern%20Japanese%20Literature.htm?pubid=29&series=Monographs Center for Japanese Studies monograph web page] ] The 16 critical essays and selected modern period translations were compiled to demonstrate the high standards set by Professor McClellan. [Washburn, Dennis. (1999). "The Journal of Asian Studies", pp. 217-220.] The contributors' work was intended to acknowledge the esteem McClellan earned as teacher and mentor. [Brown, Janice. (1999). "The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese", pp. 100-103. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0885-9884(199910)33%3A2%3C100%3ASIMJLE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M ...JATJ online] ]

:* Alan Tansman and Dennis Washburn. (1997). "Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan." Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. ISBN 0-9395-1284-X (cloth)

The McClellan Visiting Fellowship in Japanese Studies at Yale was inaugurated in 2000 by the Council on East Asian Studies in honor of Edwin McClellan, who is now the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature. ["Yale Bulletin & Calendar." 33:4. September 24, 2004. [http://www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n4/visiting.html ...YB&C online] ]

Published Work

* 1969 -- "Two Japanese Novelists: Soseki and Toson". Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 10-ISBN 0-2265-5652-2 13-ISBN 978-0-2265-5652-9 (cloth)
** _____. (1971) Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. 10-ISBN 0-8048-3340-0 13-ISBN 978-0-8048-3340-0 (paper)
* 1985 -- "Woman in the Crested Kimono : The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ogai's 'Shibue Chusai"'. New Haven: Yale University Press. 10-ISBN 0-3000-4618-9 13-ISBN 978-0-3000-4618-2

Translations

* Natsume Sōseki. (1957). "Kokoro". Chicago: Regnery Gateway. 10-ISBN 0-8952-6715-2
** _____. (1957). "Kokoro"... 10-ISBN 0-8092-6095-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-8092-6095-9 (cloth)
** _____. (1967). "Kokoro"... 10-ISBN 0-8952-6951-1; 13-ISBN 978-08952-6951-5 (paper)
** _____. (1992). "Kokoro". Lanham, Maryland: National Book Network. ISBN 0-8191-8248-6 (cloth)
** _____. (1996). "Kokoro"... ISBN 0-8952-6715-2; 13-ISBN 978-0-8952-6715-3
** _____. (2002). "Kokoro"... ISBN 1-5764-6585-3
** _____. (2006). "Kokoro"... ISBN 0-4864-5139-9.
** _____. (2007). "Kokoro". London: Peter Owen Ltd. 10-ISBN 0-7206-1297-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-7206-1297-4 (paper)

* Natsume Sōseki. (1969). "Grass on the Wayside". Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 10-ISBN 0-2267-6831-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-2267-6831-1 (cloth)
** _____. (1990). "Grass on the Wayside". Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies. 10-ISBN 0-9395-1245-9; 13-ISBN 978-0-9395-1245-4 (paper)

* Shiga Naoya. (1976) "A Dark Night's Passing". Tokyo: Kodansha. 10-ISBN 0-8701-1279-1; 13-ISBN 978-0-8701-1279-9 (cloth) and 10-ISBN: 0-8701-1362-3; 13-ISBN 978-0-8701-1362-8

* Yoshikawa Eiji. (1993). "Fragments of a Past: A Memoir". Tokyo: Kodansha. 10-ISBN 4-7700-1732-4; 13-ISBN 978-4-7700-1732-1 (cloth) and 10-ISBN 4-7700-2064-3; 13-ISBN 978-4-7700-2064-2 (paper)

References

* Brown, Janice. "Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan," "The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese", Vol. 33, No. 2 (Oct., 1999), pp. 100-103.
* Schulman, Frank Joseph. (1970). [http://books.google.com/books?id=XNjRd1RYvrcC&dq=harold+bolitho+australia&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "Japan and Korea: An Annotated Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations in Western Languages, 1877-1969."] London: [Routledge] . ISBN 0-714-62691-0
* Washburn Dennis. "Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan," "The Journal of Asian Studies", Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb., 1999), pp. 217-220.

ee also

* Mitsuo Nakamura
* Eto Jun -- contributor, "Studies ... in Honor of Edwin McClellan." [see above] ]
* Jay Rubin -- contributor, "Studies ... in Honor of Edwin McClellan." [see above] ]
* John Whittier Treat -- contributor, "Studies ... in Honor of Edwin McClellan." [see above] ]