Joyce Ackroyd
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Joyce Irene Ackroyd was an Australian academic, translator, author and editor. She was a scholar of Japanese language and literature.
Confucianist Arai Hakuseki
.
Ackroyd moved to Brisbane where she helped to develop the University of Queensland
's School of Japanese during the 1970s and 1980s. She was influential in building the program into one of Australia's main centres for Japanese studies.
In 1969, she showed prescience when she introduced a course in standard Chinese, which was not then considered to be a priority language at Australian universities.
Ackroyd's studies of Hakuseki culminated in her translations of Oritaku Shiba no Ki, published in 1980 as Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki, and the Tokushi Yoron, published as Lessons from history : the Tokushi yoron in 1982.
Joyce Ackroyd was awarded the Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil) in 1982. The following year she was awarded the Yamagata Bantō prize by the prefectural government of Osaka for her outstanding contributions to introducing Japanese culture abroad. The Japanese government awarded her Order of the Precious Crown
, Third Class.
Joyce Ackroyd died on 30 August 1991 .
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encompasses roughly 20+ works in 40+ publications in 3 languages and 500+ library holdings.
Early life
Ackroyd was awarded a PhD in Japanese and Japanese Studies at Cambridge University in 1951. Her doctoral thesis investigated the political career and writings of the Edo periodEdo period
The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
Confucianist Arai Hakuseki
Arai Hakuseki
was a Confucianist, scholar-bureaucrat, academic, administrator, writer and politician in Japan during the middle of the Edo Period, who advised the Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu. His personal name was Kinmi or Kimiyoshi . Hakuseki was his pen name...
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Career
Ackroyd served was a member of the faculty of the Australian National University in Canberra until the mid-1960s.Ackroyd moved to Brisbane where she helped to develop the University of Queensland
University of Queensland
The University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation...
's School of Japanese during the 1970s and 1980s. She was influential in building the program into one of Australia's main centres for Japanese studies.
In 1969, she showed prescience when she introduced a course in standard Chinese, which was not then considered to be a priority language at Australian universities.
Ackroyd's studies of Hakuseki culminated in her translations of Oritaku Shiba no Ki, published in 1980 as Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki, and the Tokushi Yoron, published as Lessons from history : the Tokushi yoron in 1982.
Joyce Ackroyd was awarded the Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil) in 1982. The following year she was awarded the Yamagata Bantō prize by the prefectural government of Osaka for her outstanding contributions to introducing Japanese culture abroad. The Japanese government awarded her Order of the Precious Crown
Order of the Precious Crown
The Order of the Precious Crown is a Japanese order, established on January 4, 1888 by Emperor Meiji of Japan. Originally the order had five classes, but on April 13, 1896 the sixth, seventh and eighth classes were added....
, Third Class.
Joyce Ackroyd died on 30 August 1991 .
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Joyce Ackroyd, OCLCOCLC
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encompasses roughly 20+ works in 40+ publications in 3 languages and 500+ library holdings.
- The Unknown Japanese (1968)
- Japan Today (1970)
- Discovering Japan: a Text-book of Japanese language for Secondary Schools (1971)
- Told Round a Brushwood Fire: the Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki by Hakuseki Arai (1979), translated by Ackroyd
- Lessons from History: the Tokushi yoron by Hakuseki Arai (1982), translated by Ackroyd
- Indecent Exposure in Japanese Literature (1982)
Honours
- Order of the British EmpireOrder of the British EmpireThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
- Order of the Precious CrownOrder of the Precious CrownThe Order of the Precious Crown is a Japanese order, established on January 4, 1888 by Emperor Meiji of Japan. Originally the order had five classes, but on April 13, 1896 the sixth, seventh and eighth classes were added....
- Australian Academy of the HumanitiesAustralian Academy of the HumanitiesThe Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia...
, 1983