Feng Tao

Feng Tao is director of the literature editorial department at Shanghai Translation Publishing House and a veteran publisher and translator of English literature. He has long worked in the translation and publication of foreign literature, having translated more than thirty works—roughly five million words—by authors including Austen, Saki, Forster, Maugham, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Capote, Cheever, Coetzee, McEwan and Ishiguro. His translations span classic novels and modern English literature across a range of styles. Forty-three of his works are held in the collection, with representative translations including A Streetcar Named Desire, The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; they are commonly classified under foreign literature, examinations and folk literature. As a publisher, he has planned and edited over five hundred titles in series such as "Translation Classics," "Illustrated Collector's Editions" and "Penguin Clothbound Classics," working steadily to bring classic foreign literature to Chinese readers. Public information on his dates and personal biography is limited.