About the author

Feng Keli is a significant Chinese translator in the fields of political thought and the social sciences. Publicly available information about him is limited, and no systematic account of his life has been disclosed. Judging from the eight works listed in the database, his work centers on translating Western political theory and intellectual history, covering democratic theory, classical liberalism, the political philosophy of Carl Schmitt, and biographies of modern Chinese political figures; the titles are commonly classified under politics, social science, law, and biography. His representative translations include the two-volume New Theories of Democracy, The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with That of the Moderns, Schmitt's The Romantic Movement and Legality and Legitimacy, along with The Deng Xiaoping Era and Lectures on Early Institutional History. His translations are known for careful terminology, restrained prose, and fidelity to intellectual context, earning him respect among Chinese readers and contributing steadily to scholarly discussion of these subjects.

Written (8)

The Liberty of the Ancients and the Liberty of the Moderns cover
Rating 4.4
The Liberty of the Ancients and the Liberty of the Moderns 邦雅曼·贡斯当 / 阎克文 / 冯克利 / 刘满贵 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026 Three aspects make this book profoundly important and far-reaching: its exposition of liberty (the liberty of the ancients compared with that of the m…
Schmitt Collected Works: Legality and Legitimacy cover
Rating 4.3
Schmitt Collected Works: Legality and Legitimacy 卡尔·施米特 / 朱雁冰 / 李秋零 / 冯克利 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026 Legality and Legitimacy collects three classic works by Carl Schmitt: The Intellectual Historical Condition of Parliamentarism Today, Legality and Leg…
Lectures on Early Institutional History cover
Rating 4.2
Lectures on Early Institutional History 亨利 ·萨姆纳 ·梅因 / 冯克利 / 吴其亮 The Commercial Press · 2023 Early Lectures on Institutions continues the core arguments of Ancient Law. Approaching from social anthropology, it directs its gaze to the earliest …
Schmitt Collected Works: Political Romanticism cover
Rating 4.4
Schmitt Collected Works: Political Romanticism 卡尔·施米特 / 刘锋 / 冯克利 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2017 Published in 1919 and reissued in 1925 with a long new preface, Political Romanticism is one of Schmitt's major works. Its subject is romanticism as a…
The Theory of Democracy Revisited (Complete 2-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.6
The Theory of Democracy Revisited (Complete 2-Volume Set) 乔万尼·萨托利 / 冯克利 / 阎克文 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2015 The Theory of Democracy Revisited is a classic by renowned contemporary American political thinker Giovanni Sartori, ten years in the writing and wide…
The Theory of Democracy Revisited, Volume II: The Classical Issues cover
Rating 4.5
The Theory of Democracy Revisited, Volume II: The Classical Issues 乔万尼·萨托利 / 冯克利 / 阎克文 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2015 The Theory of Democracy Revisited is a classic work by Giovanni Sartori, a leading contemporary American political thinker, which took him ten years t…
The Theory of Democracy Revisited, Volume I: Contemporary Controversies cover
Rating 4.5
The Theory of Democracy Revisited, Volume I: Contemporary Controversies 乔万尼·萨托利 / 冯克利 / 阎克文 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2015 The Theory of Democracy Revisited is a classic by renowned contemporary American political thinker Giovanni Sartori, ten years in the writing and wide…
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China cover
Rating 4.3
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Ezra Feivel Vogel / 冯克利 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2014 The author offers an in-depth analysis of Deng Xiaoping's personality and style of rule, and a complete and original interpretation of the history of …

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Shanghai People's Publishing HouseThe Commercial PressSDX Joint Publishing Company