Zhu Shenghao, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zhu Shenghao

Chinese translator

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1912

Place of Birth: Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1944

Profession: poet, translator, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Zhu Shenghao (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zhu Shengháo) (February 2, 1912 – December 26, 1944) was a Chinese translator.
Born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang of China, he was among the first few in China who translated the works of William Shakespeare's into Chinese language.
His translations are well respected by domestic and overseas scholars. He translated a total of 31 of Shakespearean plays, 27 of which were published before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Due to the Cultural Revolution starting from 1966 and other social turbulence around the 1950s, it was not until 1978 that Zhu's completed texts were finally published in Beijing.
In order to adapt the plays to Chinese reading habits, Zhu did not adopt the chronological arrangement of the original Oxford Edition; instead, he divided these plays into four categories: comedy, tragedy, historical play, and miscellaneous.
The first printing of Shakespeare's complete works in Chinese marks a significant event in the study of Shakespearean drama in China.He was married to Song Qingru (Chinese: ???) in Shanghai on May 1, 1942.
He died on December 26, 1944, due to pulmonary tuberculosis, at the age of 32.