Qian Chunqi (; 7 December 1921 – 3 February 2010) was a Chinese doctor and translator who won the

Lu Xun Literary Prize The Lu Xun Literary Prize (or Lu Xun Literature Prize) 鲁迅文学奖 is a literary prize awarded by China Writers Association. It is one of China's top four literary prizes and is named after Lu Xun and has been awarded every three years since ...

(1996), a prestigious literary award in China.同文译馆：钱春绮为中国的诗歌翻译建一座雄伟殿堂
/ref> He was most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the German writer

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...

Biography

Qian was born in a wealthy family in Taizhou,

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

on December 7, 1921, his father was a businessman. Qian primarily studied at the Wanzhu School (), then he attended Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai School (). One year later, Shanghai was occupied by Japan, the school closed, Qian attended Jiangsu Provincial Yangzhou School (). Qian entered

Anhui Medical University Anhui Medical University () is a key provincial university in Hefei, Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest ...

in 1940, majoring in Western medicine, where he graduated in 1946. After graduating he worked in Changzheng Hospital (), at the same time, he learned German, Japanese, English, French and Russian by himself. In 1966, the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

was launched by

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

, the

Red Guards Red Guards () were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes According to a Red Guard lead ...

confiscated his translations, he suffered

political persecution Political repression is the act of a state entity controlling a citizenry by force for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing the citizenry's ability to take part in the political life of a society, thereby ...

. Qian returned to work after the

Chinese Economic Reform The Chinese economic reform or reform and opening-up (), known in the West as the opening of China, is the program of economic reforms termed " Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist market economy" in the People's Republic of C ...

. In 1995, Qian was employed as a translator in Shanghai Research Institute of Culture and History (). On February 3, 2010, Qian died of illness at Xuhui District Central Hospital (), in Shanghai, aged 89.

Works

* ''

Thus Spoke Zarathustra ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None'' (german: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), also translated as ''Thus Spake Zarathustra'', is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Niet ...

'' () * ''Poetry of Nietzsche'' (Friedrich Nietzsche) () * ''Essays of Nietzsche'' (Friedrich Nietzsche) () * ''

Goethe's Faust ''Faust'' is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as '' Faust, Part One'' and ''Faust, Part Two''. Nearly all of Part One and the majority of Part Two are written in rhymed verse. Although rarely s ...

'' (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) () * ''Poetry of Goethe'' (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) () * ''Poetry of Heine'' (

Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of '' Lied ...

) ()

Awards

(1996) *

Chinese Translation Association The Translators Association of China (TAC) () is a national association for translation studies in China. Founded in the 1980s TAC was part of the academic response to the national Economic Reform in 1978. The incumbent President of TAC's 6th Ex ...

– Senior Translator (2001)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Qian, Chunqi 1921 births 2010 deaths People from Taizhou, Jiangsu People's Republic of China translators German–Chinese translators 20th-century Chinese translators 21st-century Chinese translators Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe