Zhou Mang

Zhou Mang, born in July 1971, is director, associate professor and master's supervisor of the Department of French at the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, specializing in the history of the French language and French medieval literature. He has long been engaged in translating French literature and thought, working across fiction, philosophical essays and scholarly monographs. Four of his translations are included here, among them Beauvoir's Must We Burn Sade? and Diderot's D'Alembert's Dream and The Regrets of Parting with an Old Dressing Gown; he has also translated The Birth of Purgatory, The History of Shit and A History of European Homosexuality. His work, largely in foreign literature and Western philosophy as well as essays, offers Chinese readers reliable access to the French Enlightenment and modern French culture.