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Fu Lei

Chinese writer (1908–1966)

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Chinese writer (1908–1966)

Field	Value
name	Fu Lei
image	Fu Lei and Zhu Meifu 1932.jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Nanhui, Jiangsu, Great Qing
death_date
death_place	Shanghai, Jiangsu, China
alma_mater	University of Paris
spouse	Zhu Meifu (朱梅馥, m.1932)
parents	Fu Peng (d.1912)
Li Yuzhen (d. 1933)
children	Fou Ts'ong (1934 - 2020)
Fou Min (b. 1937)
caption	Fu Lei and Zhu Meifu in 1932
other_names	Nu'an

Li Yuzhen (d. 1933) Fou Min (b. 1937)

Fu Lei (Fou Lei; ; courtesy name Nu'an 怒安, pseudonym Nu'an 怒庵; 7 April 1908 – 3 September 1966) was a Chinese translator and critic. His translation theory was dubbed the most influential in French-Chinese translation. He was known for his renowned renditions of Balzac and Romain Rolland.

Life and career

Born in Nanhui, today a district of Shanghai, Fu was raised by his mother. Between 1928 and 1931 he read literature and art history in Paris, befriending, amongst others, Jacques Maritain and Jean Daniélou. Between 1932 and 1934 he taught art history at Shanghai Art Academy. An occasional critic and curator, for the most part of his working life, Fu Lei translated full-time.Claire Roberts, Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010), for Fu Lei as an art critic and curator, and his friendship with Huang Binhong. Mingyuan Hu: Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth (Leiden: Brill, 2017), chapters 7-8, for Fu Lei as an art and literary critic, political commentator, translator, letter writer, and his friendship with Étiemble.

In 1958, Fu was labelled a rightist in the Anti-Rightist Movement, and was politically persecuted. In 1966, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, he and his wife Zhu Meifu committed suicide. His letters to his son, the pianist Fou Ts'ong, were published in 1981. Fu Lei's Family Letters is a long-standing best-seller in China.

Scholarship

Fu's close relationship with the artist Huang Binhong is the subject of the 2009 monograph, Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong, by the Australian scholar Claire Roberts.

Fu's life and work is the subject of the 2017 monograph, Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth, by the Chinese-British scholar Mingyuan Hu. It chronicles the hitherto unknown Parisian milieu and intellectual formation of Fu Lei through archival documents unearthed in France. Reviewing Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth, the sinologist and literary scholar John Minford wrote: “Here this absorbing book breaks new and fascinating ground, offering crucial evidence of the growth of a great translator’s mind.”

Legacy

The Fu Lei Translation and Publishing Award was created in 2009 by the French Embassy in China to recognize the works of Chinese translators and publishers translated from French publications.

Works

Translations

1932: Rodin L'Art by
1933: Chalot by Soupault
1934: 20 Lectures on World Masterpieces of Art
1934: Vie de Tolstoi by Rolland
1934: Vie de Michel-Ange by Rolland
1935: Voltaire by Maurois
1942: Vie de Beethoven by Rolland
1949: Eugénie Grandet by Balzac
1950: Le Père Goriot by Balzac
1953: Colomba by Mérimée
1953: Jean-Christophe by Rolland
1955: Candide by Voltaire
1956: Zadig by Voltaire
1963: Philosophie de l'art by Taine
Cousin Bette, Le Cousin Pons, Colonel Chabert and some other works by Balzac
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell Letters
** (Chinese:傅雷家书)

References

Mingyuan Hu: ''Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth'' (Leiden: Brill, 2017), chapters 2-6, for Fu Lei's Parisian milieu and his intellectual formation in Europe.
Chen, Guangchen. "Remembering the Life of a Cosmopolite: On the 50th Anniversary of Fu Lei’s Suicide – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies".
(25 May 2017). "Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth". Brill.
"John Minford. "A Matter of Life and Death: The Translator Fou Lei."". China Review International.
Fu Lei translation awards announce 10 finalists By Li Wenrui. chinadaily.com.cn. Updated: 2017-11-03. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-11/03/content_34072734.htm Retrieved 9 April 2018
Harman, Nicky. "Nicky Harman on The Book of Shanghai: some exciting writing talent and excellent translators".

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