Xu Yuanchong is a famous translator not only in China but abroad, as well as a professor in Peking University. He has been awarded varied prizes for what he has achieved in translation. He spent almost all his life in doing the translation from Chinese to the foreign languages, especially English and French, or English/French to Chinese. The Theory on Translation is on what he summarized his own translation practices.
Born in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province in 1921, he graduated from the Southwest Associated University and Universite de Paris. Mr. Xu is a professor of literary translation at Peking University.
His English publications include On Chinese Verse in English Rhyme and Vanished Springs. In addition to Songs of the Immortals published by Penguin Books, he has translated many Chinese literary classics into English or French, such as Book of Poetry, Elegies of the South, 300 Tang Poems, 300 Song Lyrics, Selected Poems of Li Bai, Poems and Lyrics of Su Dongpo, Romance of Western Bower and The Selected Poems of Mao Zedong. He has also translated some world literary classics, such as Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, into Chinese. Prof. Xu won the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation conferred by the Translators Association of China (TAC) in 2010, and won the “Aurora Borealis” Prize for Outstanding Translation of Fiction Literature, conferred by the Federation of International Translators (FIT) in 2014.
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