Zhou Zuoren

Zhou Zuoren

▪ Chinese author and scholar
Wade-Giles romanization  Chou Tso-jen , original name  Zhou Kuishou 
born January 16, 1885, Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, China
died May 6, 1967, Beijing

      Chinese essayist, critic, and literary scholar who translated fiction and myths from many languages into vernacular Chinese. He was the most important Chinese essayist of the 1920s and 1930s.

      Zhou Zuoren, who was the younger brother of the renowned writer Zhou Shuren (literary name [hao] Lu Xun), received a classical education. In 1906 the two brothers went to Japan, where Zhou Zuoren studied Japanese language and literature, Classical Greek literature, and English literature. He translated and published, together with Lu Xun, a collection of European fiction, selecting works to stimulate the people of China with the examples of others who had rebelled under oppressive rule.

      Zhou and his Japanese wife returned to China in 1911. He became a professor at Peking University in 1917 and began writing the essays that won him renown. Among his favourite topics were the need for language reform and the use of the vernacular; he also advocated what he termed a “humane” literature and praised the realism of Western writers. His collections of translations—from Greek, Roman, Russian, and Japanese literature—continued to be published as his popularity as an authority in foreign literature increased.

      Because he remained in Beijing during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) and worked for a Japanese-sponsored bureau of education, Zhou was tried as a collaborator by the National Government after the war ended and was condemned to death. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment, and he received a full pardon in 1949, which permitted him to continue his research. After the communist takeover that same year, he returned to Beijing, where he continued to write and translate.

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