Zhou Zhenfu

Zhou Zhenfu (1911–2000), whose formal name was Linrui, was a native of Pinghu, Zhejiang, and a renowned scholar of literature and history as well as an editor. He worked for many years at Kaiming Bookstore, China Youth Publishing House and Zhonghua Book Company, serving successively as editor and senior editor, and edited such works as Guan Zhui Bian and Tan Yi Lu. Beyond his editorial work, he devoted himself to the study and popularization of classical poetry, prose composition and rhetoric, authoring works including Examples of Shi and Ci, Examples of Prose, and A History of Chinese Rhetoric, as well as a ten-volume Collected Works of Zhou Zhenfu. His annotated translations such as the Shijing and Zhouyi, and his appreciative studies including Selected Works of Li Shangyin and Appreciation of Mao Zedong's Poetry, combine scholarship with readability and have had a broad influence on the collation and transmission of classical Chinese culture.