Zhang Ling

Zhang Ling (1936–2022), a Chinese translator and writer, was born in Beijing to a family from Yantai, Shandong. After graduating from the Department of Chinese at Peking University in 1958, she became a senior editor at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She long collaborated with her husband Zhang Yang on translations of foreign literary classics, including A Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice, and Wuthering Heights, and also studied Hardy and Dickens. Her translations, mainly in the fields of foreign literature and world classics, reached a wide Chinese readership and contributed to the introduction of these authors' works. Public information is limited, and a systematic account of her life and translation style remains to be compiled.