Native name 桂裕芳 Period 1953 - present Nationality Chinese | Language Chinese, French Occupation Translator Name Gui Yufang | |
Alma mater Tsinghua University
Peking University Education Tsinghua University, Peking University | ||
Gui Yufang (Chinese: 桂裕芳; pinyin: Guì Yùfāng; born 1930) is a Chinese translator.
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She is one of the foremost translators into Chinese of the works of the French novelist Guy de Maupassant.
Biography
Gui was born in Wuhan, Hubei in 1930.
She entered Tsinghua University in 1949, majoring in French at the Department of Foreign Language, where she graduated in 1952.
In 1952, universities in China underwent a nationwide reshuffling. She was educated at the Department of French Language, Peking University from 1952 to 1953. After graduation, Gui taught at Peking University.
Gui started to publish works in 1957.
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, she was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to work with her children in Jiangxi.
In 1976, Hua Guofeng and Ye Jianying toppled the Gang of Four, she was rehabilitated, she returned to Beijing and taught at Peking University.
Gui retired in 1997.