About the author

Public information about Meng Li is limited: her dates of birth and death, nationality and educational background are not clearly documented. What can be confirmed is that seven works appear under her name. Judging from these works, her writing spans several fields. On one hand, she has taken part in compiling and introducing the works of Alain de Botton, including Essays in Love and The Course of Love, which belong to foreign literature and literary essays and are marked by readability and intellectual substance. On the other hand, she has written a linguistic study, A Study of Korean Word Formation, showing an academic interest. She has also ventured into inspirational and parenting subjects, such as How Children Who Are Especially Good at Speaking Talk, which focuses on children's expression and family communication. Overall, her writing combines translation and introduction, language research and practical guidance for everyday life, addressing general readers in a plain, fluent style that links knowledge with daily experience.

Written (7)

A Study of Korean Word Formation cover
Rating 3.8
A Study of Korean Word Formation 胡翠月 / 孟丽 Peking University Press · 2025 This book uses transformational generative grammar as its guiding theory to analyze the principles of Korean word formation from the perspective of wo…
This Is How Children Who Are Especially Good at Speaking Talk cover
Rating 3.0
This Is How Children Who Are Especially Good at Speaking Talk 孟丽 Guwuxuan Publishing House · 2025 In a child's development, being able to speak well not only means expressing thoughts clearly but is also a key marker of social skills and emotional …
The Evolution of Love cover
Rating 3.9
The Evolution of Love Alain de Botton / 孟丽 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 Twenty-odd years after his autobiographical novel Essays in Love dissected love with delicate vividness, British literary polymath Alain de Botton ret…
Essays in Love (Alain de Botton Collection) cover
Rating 4.2
Essays in Love (Alain de Botton Collection) Alain de Botton / 孟丽 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 A young man and woman meet on a flight from Paris to London, and a romance unfolds. From the first kiss to the first quarrel, from intimacy to infidel…
The Collected Works of Alain de Botton (5-Volume Set): Series One cover
Rating 4.1
The Collected Works of Alain de Botton (5-Volume Set): Series One Alain de Botton / Zi Zhongyun / 南治国 / 孟丽 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 This five-volume collection, the first in the Alain de Botton series, brings together five of the British author's bestselling titles: How Proust Can …
Notes on Love cover
Rating 4.3
Notes on Love Alain de Botton / 孟丽 · 2017 A masterpiece of translation: Essays in Love is a complete, richly detailed record of a love affair that blends reason and sensibility. In its pages, …
The Evolution of Love cover
Rating 4.0
The Evolution of Love Alain de Botton / 孟丽 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2017 More than twenty years ago, de Botton made his name with Essays in Love. Alain de Botton's The Course of Love can be seen as its continuation: his cap…

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Shanghai Translation Publishing HousePeking University PressGuwuxuan Publishing House