Ma Zhencheng | |||||||
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Native name | 马振骋 | ||||||
Born | March 1934 (age 90) Shanghai, China | ||||||
Occupation | Translator | ||||||
Language | Chinese, French | ||||||
Alma mater | Nanjing University | ||||||
Period | 1980–present | ||||||
Genre | Novel | ||||||
Notable works | Montaigne essays Complete Works (3 volumes) The Little Prince | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 馬 振 騁 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 马 振 骋 | ||||||
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Ma Zhencheng ( Chinese: 马振骋; born March 1934) is a Chinese translator. [1] [2] [3] He is the first person in China to translate The Little Prince, and was also praised as the best translator of The Little Prince. [4] [5] He also translated some of the works of the French novelists Michel de Montaigne, Milan Kundera, André Gide, and Marguerite Duras into Chinese. [6] [7] [8]
Ma was born in Shanghai, in March 1934. He graduated from Nanjing University, where he majored in French language and literature. After university, he taught at Beijing Institute of Light Industry (now Beijing Technology and Business University). [9] After the Cultural Revolution, he taught at Shanghai Second Medical University (now Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine) successively. [9] In 1980, he began translating French literary works. In 1990, at the age of 56, he pursued advanced studies in France. [9]
Ma Zhencheng | |||||||
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Native name | 马振骋 | ||||||
Born | March 1934 (age 90) Shanghai, China | ||||||
Occupation | Translator | ||||||
Language | Chinese, French | ||||||
Alma mater | Nanjing University | ||||||
Period | 1980–present | ||||||
Genre | Novel | ||||||
Notable works | Montaigne essays Complete Works (3 volumes) The Little Prince | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 馬 振 騁 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 马 振 骋 | ||||||
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Ma Zhencheng ( Chinese: 马振骋; born March 1934) is a Chinese translator. [1] [2] [3] He is the first person in China to translate The Little Prince, and was also praised as the best translator of The Little Prince. [4] [5] He also translated some of the works of the French novelists Michel de Montaigne, Milan Kundera, André Gide, and Marguerite Duras into Chinese. [6] [7] [8]
Ma was born in Shanghai, in March 1934. He graduated from Nanjing University, where he majored in French language and literature. After university, he taught at Beijing Institute of Light Industry (now Beijing Technology and Business University). [9] After the Cultural Revolution, he taught at Shanghai Second Medical University (now Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine) successively. [9] In 1980, he began translating French literary works. In 1990, at the age of 56, he pursued advanced studies in France. [9]