[Lecture] A Study of Liang Zongdai, 21 Nov.

Last updated:2014-11-10

Topic: A Study of Liang Zongdai
Speaker: Ms. Lu Lan, Class of 1958 Alumni from French Department, School of Foreign Languages
                 Mr. Liu Zhixia, Class of 1958 Alumni from French Department, School of Foreign Languages

Time: 15:00, Friday, November 21, 2014
Venue: Lecture Hall 315, School of Foreign Languages, SYSU

Organizer: School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Introduction of Liang Zongdai
Liang Zongdai (1903–1983) was a Chinese poet and translator. Born in Xinhui, Guangdong, he went to Europe to study western languages in 1924. His translation of Tao Qian's poems into French was published by Lemarget, Paris in 1930, with a preface by Paul Valéry whom the young poet had visited at home in 1926.
He was one of the most popular "new poets" writing in free verse, after the May Fourth Movement in China. His most famous work is the non-fictional Poetry and Truth. The title was borrowed from Goethe's autobiography Dichtung und Wahrheit.
Liang's translations into Chinese include poetry by Shakespeare, Blake, Rilke, and Valéry, as well as Montaigne's essays. His translation of Goethe's Faust was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

Introduction Source: Wiki