About the author

Wen Zhong: publicly available information is limited, and few details of his identity and life are clearly recorded. Judging from the eight works held in the collection, his writing and translation center mainly on Indian thought and culture, involving figures such as Gandhi, Vivekananda and Ramakrishna, and spanning genres including biography, speeches and aphorisms, and cultural introductions. Representative works include I Was Born for This: The Autobiography of Gandhi, The Voice of Nonviolence: Speeches and Aphorisms, and Gandhi: A Biography, as well as The Light of Yoga: The Life, Thought and Influence of Vivekananda, The Life of Ramakrishna and My Twenty Years in South Africa from the "Yoga Library" and "Fancheng Translation Series". Overall, his translation and introduction work leans toward Indian religious philosophy and biography, with a plain style that emphasizes historical sources and the presentation of intellectual context, offering Chinese readers useful materials for understanding Indian culture.

Written (8)

Yoga Library: The Light of Yoga: The Life, Thought and Influence of Vivekananda cover
Rating 4.0
Yoga Library: The Light of Yoga: The Life, Thought and Influence of Vivekananda 闻中 四川人民文学出版社 · 2026 Vivekananda was a philosopher, but not in the sense we usually understand: he had practiced yoga for many years and was thus also a sage of Indian yog…
Fancheng Translation Series: My Twenty Years in South Africa cover
Rating 3.8
Fancheng Translation Series: My Twenty Years in South Africa 莫罕达斯·卡拉姆昌德·甘地 / 黄迎虹 / 闻中 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2026 My Twenty Years in South Africa is an autobiographical historical work written or dictated by Gandhi himself (Gandhi wrote the first 30 chapters, whil…
I Was Born for This: Gandhi's Autobiography cover
Rating 4.3
I Was Born for This: Gandhi's Autobiography 莫罕达斯卡拉姆昌德甘地 / 尚劝余 / 尚沫含 / 闻中 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 As one of the principal leaders of India's national liberation movement, Gandhi devoted his life to the tireless pursuit of truth and justice. The non…
The Call of Nonviolence: Speeches and Aphorisms cover
Rating 4.2
The Call of Nonviolence: Speeches and Aphorisms 莫罕达斯·卡拉姆昌德·甘地 / 文明超 / 闻中 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 This book brings together Gandhi's classic speeches and writings on politics, economics, society, culture, and spiritual life, offering a fairly compr…
Fancheng Translation Series: The Life of Ramakrishna cover
Rating 4.0
Fancheng Translation Series: The Life of Ramakrishna Romain Rolland / 梁海翎 / 章恬 / 闻中 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 This book offers a detailed account of Ramakrishna's life and his wisdom. It describes, from multiple perspectives, how Ramakrishna "reached the summi…
Jade from Other Mountains: An Introduction to Indian Culture cover
Rating 4.0
Jade from Other Mountains: An Introduction to Indian Culture 闻中 / 斯瓦米·尼伟达南达 / 陈亚妮 / 江小敏 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 The Jewel of Another Mountain: An Introduction to Indian Culture presents India's traditional culture, including various scholarly classics and school…
Gandhi: A Biography cover
Rating 4.0
Gandhi: A Biography Romain Rolland / 高勍 / 闻中 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 Romain Rolland's biography of his kindred spirit Gandhi, a friend from another land, is distinctive for its elegant diction and profound reach of mean…
The Gem in the Silver Plate cover
Rating 3.2
The Gem in the Silver Plate 帕德玛那潘·克里希纳 / 刘文艳 / 叶继英 / 闻中 / 吴承庭 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 This book is a memoir. Through personal recollections, the author Krishna describes his encounters with the central figure Krishnamurti at numerous me…

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四川人民文学出版社Guangxi Normal University Press