张竝

Zhang Bing is a freelance translator and a former editor at the travel magazines Private Geography and Travel+Leisure. Public information about him is limited, and few details of his life are documented. He has long translated works from French and English. His French translations Investigation and History of the Body (Volume I) were shortlisted for the 2013 Fu Lei Translation Prize, while The Decline of Democracy and the City-State and others were shortlisted in 2012. He has also translated Verne's The Mysterious Island, along with English-language works such as Blood in the Water, Hitler's Monsters, and A Visit from the Goon Squad. His translations span a wide range of subjects, including documentary writing, literary fiction, world history, and mystery fiction, covering themes such as prison uprisings, historical reflection, and science-fiction adventure, demonstrating a facility for moving between nonfiction and fiction.