About the author

Zhang Weicheng is a Chinese book author about whom limited public information is available; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly documented. Judging from the six works listed in the catalog, his writing spans two fields: foreign literature and popular science. In literature, he has translated Infinite Almost Transparent Blue, Honeymoon Travel, and N·P, and participated in compiling the first collection of Ryu Murakami's works (a five-volume set). These selections tend to focus on urban life and youth themes in contemporary Japanese fiction, with translations that strive to preserve the mood and rhythm of the originals. In popular science, The Legend of the Earth: A Wonderful Journey Through 4.5 Billion Years traces the history of Earth's evolution along a chronological thread, balancing knowledge with readability. Another title, The Melancholy of the Tennis Player, falls somewhere between personal essay and literary translation. Overall, Zhang Weicheng works in both translation and original popular science writing, addressing general readers in a plain style that emphasizes fluent narrative.

Written (6)

Ryu Murakami Collection: First Series (5-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.0
Ryu Murakami Collection: First Series (5-Volume Set) 村上龙 / 栾殿武 / 张唯诚 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 Murakami Ryu rose to fame young, winning Japan's top literary honor, the Akutagawa Prize, at 24 with his debut novel Almost Transparent Blue; over fou…
The Melancholy of the Tennis Boy cover
Rating 3.9
The Melancholy of the Tennis Boy 村上龙 / 张唯诚 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 The story follows Aoki, the son of a landowner, who is rolling in money and has a virtuous wife and a lovely son at home. But a childhood experience o…
Almost Transparent Blue cover
Rating 4.1
Almost Transparent Blue 村上龙 / 张唯诚 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 In the late 1970s, Japan, having gone through a period of rapid economic development, entered the mature phase of capitalism. Yet the unprecedented ri…
Legend of the Earth: A Wondrous Journey Through 4.5 Billion Years cover
Rating 3.8
Legend of the Earth: A Wondrous Journey Through 4.5 Billion Years 张唯诚 Posts & Telecom Press · 2020 Earth is a planet both mysterious and familiar to us. How did it complete its wondrous journey of more than four billion years, from an ordinary plane…
Honeymoon Travel cover
Rating 4.1
Honeymoon Travel Banana Yoshimoto / 张唯诚 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2019 Mika and Hiroshi grew up together, married right after high school. When the grandfather they depended on dies, Hiroshi, already despondent, becomes e…
N·P cover
Rating 4.0
N·P Banana Yoshimoto / 张唯诚 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2019 In the novel, N·P is a collection of 97 short stories by Takase Saru, a writer who lived in the United States, committed suicide at 48, and left behin…

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Shanghai Translation Publishing HousePosts & Telecom Press