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Shanghai International Studies University.
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Wang Wang
Edit Profile王智量
spouse of the President of the People's Republic of China
Career
Wang rendered a great number of Russian literary works into Chinese for almost five decades, including 30 novels. 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.
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. He settled in Shanghai in the 2000s.
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People's Republic of China