Native name 王智量 Period 1952 - present Occupation Translator Genre Novel | Language Chinese, Russian Name Wang Zhiliang Alma mater Peking University | |
Wang Zhiliang (Chinese: 王智量; pinyin: Wáng Zhìliàng; born June 1928) is a Chinese-Australian literary translator who had been honored by the Government of the Russian Federation. Wang rendered a great number of Russian literary works into Chinese for almost five decades, including 30 novels.
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He is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the Russian novelists Ivan Turgenev and Alexander Pushkin. For his contributions to the introduction of Russian literature to foreign readers, he was honored with a Pushkin Souvenir Medal by the Government of the Russian Federation in 1999.
Life
Wang was born in June 1928 in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, with his ancestral home in Jiangning County, Jiangsu.
Wang entered Peking University in 1947, majoring in Russian language, he studied literature under Hu Shi and Zhu Guangqian, and he taught there when graduated in 1952. He was transferred to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1954.
In 1958, Wang was labeled as a rightist by the Chinese government. Subsequently, he was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to work in Taihang Mountains. In 1960, Wang worked in Shanghai as a factory worker.
After the Cultural Revolution, Wang taught at East China Normal University from 1977. In the 1990s, Wang emigrated to Australia with his children. He settled in Shanghai in the 2000s.