Feng Zhi

Feng Zhi
Feng Zhi
Born	17 September 1905; Zhuozhou, Qing China
Died	22 February 1993 (aged 87); Beijing, China
Language	Mandarin
Alma mater	Peking University; Heidelberg University
Notable awards	Goethe Medal

Feng Zhi (Chinese: 馮至; pinyin: Féng Zhì; Wade–Giles: Feng Chih; 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.[1] 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

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

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[:022-1] 中国大百科全书（第二版） [Encyclopedia of China (2nd Edition)] (in Chinese). 6. Encyclopedia of China Publishing House. 2009. pp. 578–9. ISBN 978-7-500-07958-3.

[2] Chang, Kang-i Sun (2010). The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume II: From 1375. Cambridge University Press. p. 541. ISBN 978-0-521-85559-4.