birth_date: 1925-06-13 00:00:00
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name: Burton Watson
about: Dr. Burton Dewitt Watson (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1956) was a Professor of Chinese at Columbia and Stanford Universities. Among his many awards is the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation for his long and prolific career in Chinese, Japanese, and English languages.
death_date: 2017-04-01 00:00:00