Ye Weiqu

Ye Weiqu (; 6 August 1929 – 11 December 2010) was a Chinese Vietnamese translator and scholar. Ye was a visiting professor at Waseda University, Gakushuin University and Ritsumeikan University.

He was among the first few in China who translated the works of Yasunari Kawabata's into Chinese language.

Biography Ye was a Chinese Vietnamese born on Cholon, French Indo-China on August 6, 1929, with his ancestral home in Dongguan, Guangdong.

In 1952, Ye went to Beijing from Hong Kong, he graduated from Peking University, majoring in Japanese at the Department of East Language and Literature.

Works The History of Japanese Culture The History of Japanese Literature

Mono no aware and Tacit consciousness: Japanese Aesthetical Sense The Biography of Kawabata Yasunari The Biography of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Kanikosen (Takiji Kobayashi) Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata) Thousand Cranes (Yasunari Kawabata) The Dancing Girl of Izu (Yasunari Kawabata)

Awards Chinese Translation Association – Competent Translator (2004)

Personal life In 1956, Ye married his middle school sweetheart Tang Yuemei, also a translator, in Beijing.