Mr. Xu Yuanchong's mentality is characterized by equality, openness and tolerance. Mr. Xu Yuanchong is a high-profile and extroverted person. When it comes to translators, our first thought is to translate English, French and other foreign language works into Chinese, while Mr. Xu Yuanchong is the opposite. His main job is to translate China's excellent poems into English and French.
Xu Yuanchong (1921April18-2021June 17), male, Han nationality, from Nanchang, Jiangxi. He graduated from the Foreign Languages Department of National Southwest Associated University in his early years, 1944 was admitted to the Institute of Foreign Literature of Tsinghua University Research Institute, and 1983 has been a professor at Peking University. He has been engaged in literary translation for more than 80 years. His translation covers many languages such as Chinese, English and French. His translation focuses on the English translation of China's ancient poems, and forms the methods and theories for the translation of rhyming poems. He is known as "the only person who translated poetry into English and French", and Professor Peking University is a translator.
At home and abroad, 60 Chinese, English and French translations have been published, including The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Selected Poems of Li Bai, The West Chamber, Red and Black, Madame Bovary and Memories of the Past. The National SouthWest Associated University's Study Diary records his life during his study in The National SouthWest Associated University.
20 10 won the "Lifetime Achievement Award of Chinese Translation Culture". On August 2nd, 20 14, Xu Yuanchong won the "Northern Lights" outstanding literary translation award, one of the highest awards in the international translation field, and was the first Asian translator to win this honor.
According to the obituary of School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University, at 7: 40 on June,/kloc-0, Xu Yuanchong died at his home in Beijing at the age of 1 00.
2021At 7 o'clock on June 22nd, the farewell ceremony of Mr. Xu Yuanchong's body was officially held in babaoshan funeral home.