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'''Arthur David Waley''' [[Ordem dos Companheiros de Honra|CH (Order of the Companions of Honour)]], [[Ordem do Império Britânico|CBE (Order of the British Empire)]] ([[19 de agosto]], [[1889]] – [[27 de junho]], [[1966]]) foi um famoso [[orientalista]] e [[Sinologia|sinologista]] inglês.
==Vida==
Waley wasnasceu born inem [[Royal Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]], [[Kent]], [[EnglandInglaterra]], ascomo '''Arthur David Schloss''', sonfilho of thedo [[economisteconomista]] [[David Frederick Schloss]]. OfDe Jewishherança heritagejudia, hemudou changedseu hissobrenome [[surname]]para too hisde paternalsolteira grandmother'sde maidensua nameavó paterna, Waley, inem 1914. EducatedEducado atna [[Rugby School]], heele enteredentrou para o [[King's College, Cambridge|King's College]], [[UniversityUniversidade ofde Cambridge|Cambridge]] inem 1907, whereonde he studiedestudou [[ClassicsClássicos]], ande wasrecebeu awarded aum [[bachelor's degreebacharelado]] inem 1910.
Waley was appointedtornou-se Assistant Keeper of Oriental Prints and Manuscripts at(Curador Assistente de Impressos e Manuscritos Orientais) thedo [[BritishMuseu MuseumBritânico]] inem 1913. DuringDurante thisesta timeépoca heele taughtaprendeu himselfsozinho [[ChineseLíngua languagechinesa|Chinesechinês]] ande [[JapaneseLíngua languagejaponesa|Japanesejaponês]], partlyparcialmente topara helpfacilitar catalogueo thecatálogo paintingsde inpinturas theda Museum'scomleção collectiondo Museu. HeEle quitabandonou inseu 1929emprego toem devote1929 himselfpara fullydevotar-se tocompletamente hisa literaryseus andinteresses literários culturale interestsculturais, thoughembora hetenha continuedcontinuado toa lecturelecionar inna the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (Escola de Estudos Orientais e Africanos), [[LondonLondres]]. InEm 1918, heele metconheceu [[Beryl de Zoete]], auma [[dance]]escritora [[critic]]e andcrítica [[writer]]de dança; theyeles livedmoraram togetherjuntos untilaté a hermorte deathdela inem 1962. InEm 1966, Arthur Waley marriedcasou-se com [[Alison Robinson]], whoma hequem hadconhecera first met inem 1929. They livedMoraram inem [[Highgate]] inem LondonLondres, ande sheela becametornou-se auma figura familiar figureno infim laterde sua yearsvida, livingvivendo beyondmais the age ofde 100 anos.
Waley lived in [[Bloomsbury]] and had a number of friends among the [[Bloomsbury Group]], many of whom he had met as an undergraduate. He was one of the earliest to recognize [[Ronald Firbank]] as an accomplished author, and together with [[Osbert Sitwell]] provided an introduction to Firbank's first collected edition.
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