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Xue Qingguo

شوي تشينغ قوه (بسّام)

Notable figure · Source: Interview with Xue Qingguo, China Writers Network (11 Nov 2022); al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), p. 163 · Second source: Beijing Foreign Studies University, faculty profile: Xue Qingguo

Field: Literary translation

Affiliation

Chinese translator of Gibran and Adonis; Arabic professor

Biography

He studied Arabic from 1981 and took his doctorate in it at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1992), where he is a professor in the School of Arabic. He has translated seven books by Gibran, Adonis, a selection of Darwish and Mahfouz's Echoes of an Autobiography, and with the Syrian scholar Firas shared in translating the Laozi, Analects and Mencius. He won the Lu Xun Literary Prize for translation (2022) for his Adonis.