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Place of Birth: Nanhui District, Shanghai, China
About Fu Lei
- Fu Lei (Fou Lei; Chinese: ??; courtesy name Nu'an ??, pseudonym Nu'an ??; 1908–1966), with his renowned rendition of Balzac and Romain Rolland, is China's most respected translator of French literature. Born in Nanhui, today a district of Shanghai, Fu Lei 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.In 1958 Fu Lei was labelled a rightist in the Anti-Rightist Movement.
- 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.
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