About Sun Shengwu
Lived 1917 – 2014 (aged 96–97). Sun Shengwu was a Chinese translator.
Sun Shengwu (; 1917 – 9 June 2014), also known as Sun Wei , 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.
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Chinese translator
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Sun Shengwu was born in 1917 in Yanshi District.
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Sun Shengwu died on 9 June 2014 in Beijing.
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Sun Shengwu was a translator.
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