Sun Shengwu

In this Chinese name, the family name is Sun.

Sun Shengwu
Native name	孙绳武
Born	1917 Yanshi, Henan, China
Died	June 9, 2014(2014-06-09) (aged 96–97) Beijing, China
Resting place	Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
Pen name	Sun Wei
Occupation	Editor, translator
Language	Chinese, Russian
Alma mater	Northwest University Counter-Japanese Military and Political University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	孫繩武
Simplified Chinese	孙绳武
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sūn Shéngwǔ

Sun Shengwu (Chinese: 孙绳武; 1917 – 9 June 2014), also known as Sun Wei (孙玮), was a Chinese translator and editor.

Biography

Sun was born in Yanshi, Henan, China in 1917. In 1942 he graduated from Northwest University, where he majored in the Russian language. In 1949 he joined the Time Publishing House as an editor. He was transferred to the People's Literature Publishing House in 1953, where he successively worked as Director of Foreign Editorial Office and Deputy Editor-In-Chief. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1960. He founded the Foreign Literature. He retired in April 1987. He died in Beijing on June 6, 2014. He was buried in Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.

Works

• 孙绳武诗文集 [Sun Shengwu's Collection of Poems and Essays] (in Chinese). Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House. 2016. ISBN 9787020094103.
• 高尔基传 [Biography of Gorky] (in Chinese).
• 莱蒙托夫传 [Biography of Lemontov] (in Chinese).
• 普希金传 [Biography of Pushkin] (in Chinese).
• 列夫·托尔斯泰传 [Biography of Leo Tolstoy] (in Chinese).
• Sun Shengwu; Jiang Luhe. 俄国文学史 [History of Russian Literature] (in Chinese).

External links

• 新中国60年百名优秀出版人候选人：孙绳武 on Sina