Education
Dr. de Crespigny received his tertiary education at University of Cambridge (B.A. Honours History 1957; M.A. History 1961) and from the Australian National University (B.A. ANU Honours Chinese 1962; M.A. Oriental Studies Honours 1964; Ph.D. Far Eastern History 1968).
During his early years as a scholar and academic, he benefited from the guidance of such sinologists as Hans Bielenstein, Patrick Fitzgerald and Hsü Cho-yün, Miyazaki Ichisada and developed an interest in the late Han via the classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. His seminal dissertation in 1964 was "The Development of the Chinese Empire in the South; a discussion of the origins of the state of Wu of the Three Kingdoms", which provided the basis for much of his later work, including his most well-known monograph Generals of the South: the Foundation and Early History of the Three Kingdoms State of Wu.
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