Wang Hong

Wang Hong, born in 1956, is a Chinese professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Foreign Languages, Soochow University, and director of its Translation Research Institute. He is regarded as one of the representative figures in the English translation of Chinese classics. Long engaged in English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation practice and research, he has published more than 40 authored and translated works. His translations of Mozi, Dream Pool Essays, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Selected Ming and Qing Essays, and Guoyu were included in the major national publishing project Library of Chinese Classics, and in 2023 he received the title of Senior Translator from the Translators Association of China. The four works held in the library span medicine, language, health, and popular science, ranging from editions of classical Chinese medical texts to studies of digital technology and new media communication, as well as public health books on medical testing and rabies prevention, reflecting a writing orientation that combines scholarship with public outreach.