Nationality Chinese Name Zi Zhongyun Genre Novel | Period 1953 - present | |
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Occupation Translator, historian, professor Language Chinese, English, French Books The destiny of wealth, No Exit?: The Origin and Evolution of U.S. Policy Toward China, 1945-1950 | ||
Zi Zhongyun (simplified Chinese: 资中筠; traditional Chinese: 資中筠; pinyin: Zī Zhōngyún; born June 1930) is a Chinese translator and historian who is an expert on US studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She masters English and French.
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Biography
Zi was born into a scholarly family in Shanghai in June 1930, with her ancestral home in Leiyang, Hunan, the daughter of Tong Yijun (童益君), a Chinese officer, and Zi Yaohua (资耀华), a banker and financier who was a graduate of Kyoto University, Pennsylvania University and Harvard University. She has two sister, Zi Huayun (资华筠) and Zi Minyun (资民筠). Zi Huayuan, a dancer and actress, was born in 1936. Zi Minyun, a physicist, was born in 1938.
Zi secondary studied at the Yaohua High School (耀华中学). She entered Tsinghua University in 1948, majoring in English language and French language at the Department of Western Languages and Literature, where he graduated in 1951.
After graduation, she was assigned to Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1980, she worked in China Institute of International Studies (中国国际问题研究所), then she worked in Princeton University as a researcher in 1982.
From 1985 to 1992, she worked in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
She retired in 1996.
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Personal life
Zi was married to a Chinese historian, scholar and European expert, Chen Lemin (陈乐民), he was born in 1930 and died in 2008.