Imre Galambos

[1] Galambos was born in Szőny, Hungary in 1967, and studied at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

[2] After graduating with an MA in 1994 he went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2002 he was awarded a PhD, with a dissertation on Chinese writing during the Warring States period.

[4] Whilst at the British Library he also published studies on The General's Garden and other Tangut translations of Chinese military treatises.

During 2012-2023 Galambos taught pre-modern Chinese subjects in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, until his retirement in 2023.

Subsequently, he took up a teaching post at the School of Literature, Zhejiang University, where he is now Qiushi Chair Professor.