摘要
About the Author:Born in Nanchang,Jiangxi in 1921,Xu Yuanchong graduated from the Southwest Associated University and Universite de Paris and worked as a professor of literary translation at Peking University During his decades-long careen Xu has published On Chinese Verse in English Rhyme and Vanished Springs,which featured a preface by Nobel Prize winner for physics,C.N.Yang.In addition to Songs of the Immortals published by Penguin Books,he has translated many Chinese literary classics into English or French.Some of his most notable work include Book of Poetry,Elegies of the South,300 Tang Poems,300 Song Lyrics,Selected Poems of Li Bai,Poems and Lyrics of Su Dongpo,Romance of Western Bower and The Selected Poems of Mao Zedong.
