Feng Zhi Explained

Feng Zhi
Birth Date:17 September 1905
Birth Place:Zhuozhou, Qing China
Death Place:Beijing, China
Language:Mandarin
Alma Mater:Peking University
Heidelberg University
Awards:Goethe Medal

Feng Zhi (; 17 September 1905 – 22 February 1993) was a Chinese writer and translator. He was also the director and then honorary director of the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 1964.[1]

Feng published several collections of poems, including Songs of Yesterday and Northern Journey and Other Poems, in his early life. Then he went to Germany and introduced the poetry of Rilke, Goethe, Heine, along with Novalis afterwards, thus he was bestowed Goethe Medal in the 1980s. He was also a scholar of Du Fu.[2]

References

  1. Book: 中国大百科全书(第二版). Encyclopedia of China Publishing House. 2009. 978-7-500-07958-3. 6. 578–9. zh. Encyclopedia of China (2nd Edition).
  2. Book: Chang, Kang-i Sun. The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume II: From 1375.. Cambridge University Press. 2010. 978-0-521-85559-4. 541.