Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University

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The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University 《北外岁月—胡文仲的外语人生》，李尧 著，新世界出版社，2023年4月第一版，359pp., 58RMB, ISBN 978-7-5104-7695-2 Reviewed by Li Jianjun, Beijing Foreign Studies University "Professor Hu's own English was always beautiful. For some years now, Professor Hu Wenzhong has declined all the celebrations of his work anniversaries, birthdays, and symposiums proposed in his honor. Naturally the publication of his biography The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University, published by the New World Press in April 2023, was both a surprise and a delight to the people who know him well. It is a long-awaited book, written by Li Yao, a writer and renowned literary translator, and a close friend of Professor Hu for over three decades.

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Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University

China Daily  

Foreign language education Prof. Hu was admitted to Beijing Foreign Languages Institute or Beiwai for short in 1951 when he was 16 and was chosen to be trained as an English teacher. English textbooks that Prof. Hu compiled or jointly compiled include: English Book1-4 ; College English Book 1-2 ; College English Book 1-2 ; Gateway to English Book 1-2 …

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University

China Daily  

The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University 《北外岁月—胡文仲的外语人生》，李尧 著，新世界出版社，2023年4月第一版，359pp., 58RMB, ISBN 978-7-5104-7695-2 Reviewed by Li Jianjun, Beijing Foreign Studies University "Professor Hu's own English was always beautiful. For some years now, Professor Hu Wenzhong has declined all the celebrations of his work anniversaries, birthdays, and symposiums proposed in his honor. Naturally the publication of his …

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University

China Daily  

The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University 《北外岁月—胡文仲的外语人生》，李尧 著，新世界出版社，2023年4月第一版，359pp., 58RMB, ISBN 978-7-5104-7695-2 Reviewed by Li Jianjun, Beijing Foreign Studies University "Professor Hu's own English was always beautiful. For some years now, Professor Hu Wenzhong has declined all the celebrations of his work anniversaries, birthdays, and symposiums proposed in his honor. Naturally the publication of his …

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University

China Daily  

Intercultural communication studies Prof. Hu was recognized as a pioneer and leading academic in intercultural communication studies in China. Realizing that intercultural communication was a blank slate in China, he introduced Western intercultural communication theories to China, edited books, wrote articles and offered postgraduate courses in the field at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Penn State University in the late …

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University

China Daily  

The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University 《北外岁月—胡文仲的外语人生》，李尧 著，新世界出版社，2023年4月第一版，359pp., 58RMB, ISBN 978-7-5104-7695-2 Reviewed by Li Jianjun, Beijing Foreign Studies University "Professor Hu's own English was always beautiful. For some years now, Professor Hu Wenzhong has declined all the celebrations of his work anniversaries, birthdays, and symposiums proposed in his honor. Naturally the publication of his …

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Book review: The Life and Times of Hu Wenzhong at Beijing Foreign Studies University

China Daily  

Intercultural communication studies Prof. Hu was recognized as a pioneer and leading academic in intercultural communication studies in China. Realizing that intercultural communication was a blank slate in China, he introduced Western intercultural communication theories to China, edited books, wrote articles and offered postgraduate courses in the field at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Penn State University in the late …

Chinese books find an audience overseas
2 years, 9 months ago

Chinese books find an audience overseas

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Children display Chinese learning cards in front of an exhibition booth of the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna during the Vienna International Book Fair in November 2021. In December 2021, the Arabic translation of Chinese history book Zhongguo Lishi Shiwujiang by Zhang Qizhi won the first prize of 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding. The …

Interpreting the classics
3 years, 7 months ago

Interpreting the classics

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Xu Yuanchong, prominent translator and professor of Peking University, holds the newly published collection of his diaries kept in the National Southwestern Associated University, at his home in Beijing in February. For more than six decades, centenarian Xu Yuanchong has applied his linguistic skills in Chinese, English and French to build literary bridges between the East and West, Yang Yang …

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