Kristofer Schipper

Kristofer Marinus Schipper, also known as Rik Schipper and by his Chinese name Shi Zhouren, was a Dutch sinologist. He was an emeritus professor of Oriental studies at Leiden University, appointed there in 1993. Schipper has worked as researcher for École française d'Extrême-Orient and later taught as directeur de recherche in History of Daoism studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He was head of the Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises from the Collège de France. He also taught at Fuzhou University and Zhangzhou College. After his retirement he and his wife Dr. Yuan Bingling moved to Fuzhou (Fujian) in China.