About the author

Shi Jie, known online as "Teacher Ba," is a Chinese translator of Spanish-language literature and currently a detective with the Economic Crime Investigation Division of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau. He has published more than ten translated works from Spanish, including The Luminous Novel, A Portable Brief History of Literature, Hunting Rabbits, and When We Cease to Understand the World, as well as Luis Sepúlveda's The World at the End of the World, The Edge Stories, and A Logic Not Welcome in Kassel. His translations span foreign literature, mystery and detective fiction, and social novels, reflecting a command of diverse styles across fantasy, realism, and explorations of human nature. Beyond translation, his background in police work lends a distinctive dimension to his identity as a translator. Publicly available information on his birth and death dates, education, and awards is limited.

Written (6)

Stories from the Edge (Sepúlveda Works Series) cover
Rating 4.2
Stories from the Edge (Sepúlveda Works Series) 路易斯· 塞普尔维达 / 施杰 / 李雪菲 People's Literature Publishing House · 2023 Stories from the Edge collects thirty-four short stories by Luis Sepúlveda. These stories portray men and women who never stop struggling: Amazonian I…
The World at the End of the World (Sepúlveda Works Series) cover
Rating 4.0
The World at the End of the World (Sepúlveda Works Series) 路易斯· 塞普尔维达 / 施杰 / 张力 People's Literature Publishing House · 2023 After reading Moby-Dick, a young man dreams of a life at sea. He leaves Santiago for an unfamiliar port in southern Chile, signs on as a sailor aboard…
When We Cease to Understand the World cover
Rating 4.4
When We Cease to Understand the World 本哈明·拉巴图特 / 施杰 People's Literature Publishing House · 2022 A representative work by contemporary Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut, this collection of five short stories draws on real historical figures, blurrin…
Mutation cover
Rating 3.6
Mutation 豪尔赫·科门萨尔 / 施杰 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022 Lawyer Ramón Martínez has a successful career, is a devoted family man of traditional values, and a staunch atheist. Then he undergoes surgery, loses …
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Rating 4.3
A Model for Death Jorge Luis Borges / 阿道夫·比奥伊·卡萨雷斯 / 施杰 / 李雪菲 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 “Our second collaboration was another detective novel, The Model Murder. The novel is distinctive and full of jokes. But only one edition was printed,…
Kassel Does Not Welcome Logic cover
Rating 4.0
Kassel Does Not Welcome Logic 恩里克·比拉-马塔斯 / 施杰 / 李雪菲 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 One morning, an unexpected phone call disrupts the daily life of a Barcelona writer. On the other end, a woman's voice invites him to the German city …

Publishers

Shanghai Translation Publishing HousePeople's Literature Publishing House