Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Arthur David Waley, CH, CBE (Chinese: 亞瑟偉利 or 亞瑟偉雷; pinyin: ya3se3 wei3li2; Japanese: アーサー・ウェイリー, 19 August 1889 – 27 June 1966) was an English orientalist and sinologist.As one recent evaluation puts it, "Waley was the great transmitter of the high literary cultures of China and Japan to the English-reading general public; the ambassador from East to West in the first half of the 20th century. He was self-taught, but reached remarkable levels of fluency, even erudition, in both languages.. }
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- Arthur_Waley comment "Arthur David Waley, CH, CBE (Chinese: 亞瑟偉利 or 亞瑟偉雷; pinyin: ya3se3 wei3li2; Japanese: アーサー・ウェイリー, 19 August 1889 – 27 June 1966) was an English orientalist and sinologist.As one recent evaluation puts it, "Waley was the great transmitter of the high literary cultures of China and Japan to the English-reading general public; the ambassador from East to West in the first half of the 20th century. He was self-taught, but reached remarkable levels of fluency, even erudition, in both languages.".