| Born Krakow, Poland, 26 May 1936; died Sydney, 5 September 2008. Agnieszka Dorota Syrokomla-Stefanowska spent her childhood years in Jerusalem before relocating to Sydney in 1950 where she completed her high school education at Santa Sabina College in Strathfield. At the University of Sydney she majored in Chinese Studies, graduating with a BA with First Class Honours and the University Medal in 1962, and received her PhD in 1967.
As a member of the University of Sydney academic staff (1966-1996), she lectured in Classical Chinese literature, history and thought, and supervised 20 PhD students to successful completion. She served as head of Chinese Studies from 1983-1996, and after her retirement in 1996, was appointed honorary associate in the School of Languages and Cultures.
Agnieszka Stefanowska was editor of The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (JOSA) (1983-2001), and was the current co-editor of "The University of Sydney East Asian Series", The University of Sydney World Literature Series, and the ongoing project "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women".
She co-edited the 584-page volume Austrina: Essays in Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the Founding of the Oriental Society of Australia (1982) and edited "Shijin: Autobiography of the Poet Kaneko Mitsuharu, 1895-1975 (1988)" by A. R. Davis.
Her other publications include the two internationally renowned textbooks "Basic Chinese Grammar and Sentence Patterns" (1982, reprinted several times) and A Classical Chinese Reader (2003). She was also Director of "Wild Peony Publications", which has played a pioneering role in promoting Australia-based scholarship on the literature, history and art of China, Japan and Korea, as well as the translation of literary writings from these countries.
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