Gladys Yang

female, deceased (1999)
Cultural Revolution, From Beijing, Translator, Chinese literature, British, Anglo-Chinese…ForeignLanguagesPress
Gladys Yang was a British translator of Chinese literature, the wife of another noted translator Yang Xianyi. Her father was a missionary to China,...
Yang Xianyi

Yang Xianyi

male
Tianjin, Cultural Revolution, Oxford University, La Chanson de Roland, The Song of Roland, The Birds…ForeignLanguagesPress
Yang Xianyi, born at Tianjin, January 10, 1915, is a Chinese translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into...

Sidney Shapiro

male, 94 years old
Jewish person, American expatriate in China, World War II, Expatriate in China, ForeignLanguagesPress, Second Sino-Japanese War…Chinese languages
Sidney Shapiro (born December 23, 1915) is an American-born author and translator who has lived in China since 1947. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he...
Dorise Nielsen

Dorise Nielsen

female, deceased (1980)
Dorise Winifred Webber Nielsen, ForeignLanguagesPress, Canadian House of Commons, liberal party of canada, Danish Canadian, From Saskatchewan
Dorise Winifred Webber Nielsen (July 30 1902 - December 9 1980) was a Canadian politician and teacher. She was the first member of the Communist...

Chester C. I. Wang

male
Cornell University, New, Assistant Professor, ForeignLanguagesPress
Chester C. I. Wang , assistant professor emeritus and East Asian Studies bibliographer, has published two books: "A New Treatise on the Methodology...