Background
Wang was born in a wealthy family in Tianjin in 1925.
王以铸, 王以鑄
Wang was born in a wealthy family in Tianjin in 1925.
Wang masters Chinese, classical Greek, Latin, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Hebrew. In the Chinese academic society, he was accounted as the only scholar who has the ability to talk with Qian Zhongshu in different languages. During his childhood, Wang lived in Tianjin concession, he learned English and French by himself.
Wang was a graduate student in English language at the Peking University, he stayed at home learned Japanese, German and Italian by himself about seven years. During the Chinese Civil War, Wang taught at Tianjin Nankai School. After the founding of the PRC, Wang worked in the People's Literature Publishing House.
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, Wang was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to work in Xianning.
Chinese Translation Association - Competent Translator (2004).
Histories (《历史》)Annals (《编年史》)The History of War (《战争史》)History of the Ancient Oriental (《古代东方史》)History of the Ancient Roman (《古代罗马史》)(撒路斯提乌斯《喀提林阴谋:朱古达战争》)(谢·勒·乌特琴柯《凯撒评传》》)(特威兹穆尔《奥古斯都》》)Collected of Goethe and Schiller (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller) (《歌德席勒叙事谣曲选》)Tsurezuregusa (Yoshida Kenko) (《徒然草》)Poetry of Wilde (Oscar Wilde) (《王尔德诗歌》).