Sun Liang

Sun Liang (1925–1990), originally named Sun Jilian and styled Chuliang, was a Shanghai native, a renowned critic of foreign literature, translator, and professor. He graduated from the English Department of St. John's University, Shanghai, in 1948, and from 1956 taught in the Foreign Languages Department of East China Normal University, lecturing on European and American literature. He also served as a council member of the Shanghai Foreign Literature Society. Sun Liang devoted much effort to translation and the introduction of foreign literature, translating more than thirty works, including Dubliners, Mrs Dalloway, and One Hundred Famous English and American Poems, and he also wrote Nudge 2.0. His translations are carefully crafted, balancing the tone of the original with readability in Chinese, and have had a broad influence in introducing classics of foreign literature; his works are often classified under foreign literature and classic works.