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Pu Lin, whose original name is Xiong Lin, was born in 1970 in Wanzhou, Chongqing. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Renmin University of China and completed postdoctoral work at Heidelberg University in Germany. He is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Sichuan University and has served as its department chair and as director of the university's Office of Social Science Research. His research covers ancient Greek philosophy, medieval philosophy, and German philosophy, and he reads ancient Greek, Latin, and German. He is known in Chinese-language scholarship for leading, largely single-handedly, a Greek-Chinese bilingual translation of the Complete Works of Plato, with published volumes including Phaedrus, Phaedo, Apology of Socrates, Crito, Philebus, Ion, and Hippias Major. His translations stay close to the Greek originals and offer reliable bilingual texts for studying Plato. Seven of his works are listed here, mostly in philosophy and Western philosophy, suited to both specialists and general readers.