Sun Shengwu (; 1917 – 9 June 2014), also known as Sun Wei (), was a Chinese translator and editor.
Biography
Sun was born in
Yanshi,
Henan,
China
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in 1917. In 1942 he graduated from
Northwest University, where he majored in the
Russian language
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. In 1949 he joined the Time Publishing House as an editor. He was transferred to the
People's Literature Publishing House in 1953, where he successively worked as Director of Foreign Editorial Office and Deputy Editor-In-Chief. He joined the
Chinese Communist Party in 1960. He founded the ''Foreign Literature''. He retired in April 1987. He died in Beijing on June 6, 2014. He was buried in
Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
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新中国60年百名优秀出版人候选人：孙绳武on Sina
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1917 births
2014 deaths
People from Yanshi
Northwest University (China) alumni
Writers from Luoyang
Russian–Chinese translators
20th-century Chinese translators
21st-century Chinese translators