William (Bill) Jenner was educated from 1953 to 1958 at
Westminster School and from 1958 to 1962 at the
University of Oxford where he studied sinology and wrote his
dissertation about the history of
Luoyang in the fifth and sixth centuries, especially through the work of
Yang Xuanzhi. His first wife was the China scholar
Delia Davin. From 1963 to 1965, he worked as a translator at
Foreign Languages Press in Beijing. There he translated
From Emperor to Citizen, an "autobiography" of the last
Emperor of China,
Puyi, and started translating the novel
Journey to the West into English. Since 1965, Jenner has taught at the
University of Leeds,
Australian National University and the
University of East Anglia. From 1979 to 1985, Jenner travelled to China every summer, and worked on the translation of
Journey to the West and other works, for example by
Lu Xun. He has written about the process and politics of translating and publishing
Journey to the West in an essay published in the
Los Angeles Review of Books (3 Feb 2016). He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998. His most recent project is
The History of China in two volumes. Jenner has two daughters, one son and seven grandchildren. == Partial bibliography ==