Zhu Wei

Zhu Wei, born in Shanghai in 1951, is a veteran media professional. He began working as an editor at China Youth in 1978 and served as deputy director of the fiction department at People's Literature from 1983 to 1993, during which he helped bring out writers such as Mo Yan, Yu Hua and Su Tong. In 1993 he founded the magazine Philharmonic, and from 1995 to 2014 he was editor-in-chief of Sanlian Life Weekly. His eleven works in the collection fall roughly into two groups: annotated English editions of foreign classics such as The Great Gatsby, A Farewell to Arms, A Poem Collection of Tagore and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, aimed at study and exam preparation; and social-science and cultural essays such as Cultural Anthropology and Intangible Cultural Heritage and On Quality, along with technical titles such as Numerical Computation Methods (3rd Edition) and An Introduction to Sound Reinforcement Technology. His editing and writing span both humanities popularization and technical subjects.