Tall and thin, gentlemanly and meticulous--these are the first impressions one has of Glen Dudbridge, a British sinologist deeply versed in the study of classical Chinese fiction. And his facile, fluent Mandarin Chinese is, what's more, a rarity among Western sinologists.
高瘦斯文、細心而重條理，這是精研中國古典小說的英國漢學家杜德橋教授給人的第一印象；而他那一口淺白流利的標準國語，更是歐美漢學家中罕見的。