About the author

Public information about Chen Chao is limited, and his translation work can only be understood from the 39 titles included in the database. He is mainly active in the translation of foreign literature, with translations concentrating on classics of dystopian and war fiction, including All Quiet on the Western Front, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, and the boxed set We + 1984 + Brave New World. His work also covers Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier and the collected reviews. He thus focuses on twentieth-century critical writing and Western intellectual texts, with translations intended for world classics and essay collections. His translations serve the ideas and narratives of the originals, acting as a bridge for Chinese readers encountering Orwell and related dystopian literature.

Written (39)

The Genesis of a Personalized Historical Imagination cover
Rating 4.1
The Genesis of a Personalized Historical Imagination 陈超 Peking University Press · 2025 This book centers on how the "personalized historical imagination" of avant-garde poetry is generated and on the possibility of its further conscious …
All Quiet on the Western Front cover
Rating 4.8
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque / 陈超 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024 Nineteen-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates, spurred on by their schoolteachers, volunteer together to join the war. Arriving at the front, Paul …
I'll Take You to Say Goodbye cover
Rating 2.8
I'll Take You to Say Goodbye 米基·布拉默 / 陈超 China Translation & Publishing House · 2024 “If only I'd told them sooner how much I loved them.” “My biggest regret in life is that I didn't start eating mangoes until I was fifty!” These are t…
The Road to Wigan Pier cover
Rating 4.6
The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell traveled to the industrial north of England to investigate and record the real conditions …
Homage to Catalonia cover
Rating 4.5
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 In December 1936, fired by the desire to fight fascism, Orwell went to Catalonia, Spain, to fight for the Republican government and was soon sent to t…
On the Road cover
Rating 4.3
On the Road Jack Kerouac / 陈超 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 Driven by a hunger for personal freedom, Sal Paradise, a young student, crosses America with Dean, Marylou, and a band of men and women. They live it …
Down and Out in Paris and London cover
Rating 4.3
Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 The author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm and prophet of dystopia, George Orwell was nonetheless a committed socialist throughout his life. T…
Aspects of Scholars' Rites and Law in Dream of the Red Chamber cover
Rating 3.7
Aspects of Scholars' Rites and Law in Dream of the Red Chamber 陈超 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2023 A gem of classical Chinese popular literature, Dream of the Red Chamber has won readers across all social strata with its grand scope, subtle thought,…
We + 1984 + Brave New World (Dystopian Novel Trilogy) cover
Rating 4.7
We + 1984 + Brave New World (Dystopian Novel Trilogy) George Orwell / 叶甫盖尼·扎米亚京 / 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎 / 董乐山 / 陈超 · 2021 We: The One State of the 26th century is a totalitarian state where everyone has only a number, no name, lives in fully transparent glass houses, wear…
Rafa: The Autobiography of Rafael Nadal cover
Rating 4.2
Rafa: The Autobiography of Rafael Nadal 拉菲尔·纳达尔 / 约翰·卡林 / 陈超 / 赵伟佳 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 What makes a champion? What does it take to be the best in the world at your sport? Rafael Nadal, one of the greatest players in tennis, has written t…
Song of the Humble cover
Rating 4.2
Song of the Humble 奇戈希·奥比奥玛 / 陈超 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2021 Spanning continents and traveling across the earth and through cosmic space, this novel is narrated by a storyteller who has lived for centuries—a con…
Shadow Game cover
Rating 3.8
Shadow Game 约瑟夫·奥康纳 / 陈超 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2021 London, 1878. At the Lyceum Theatre, young writer Bram Stoker is hired by the superstar Henry Irving to manage the theatre, and there he meets the cap…
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Three-Volume Boxed Set) cover
Rating 4.7
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Three-Volume Boxed Set) George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 Orwell is widely regarded as one of the most thought-provoking and vividly written essayists of the twentieth century, renowned for battling the preju…
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Volume 3) cover
Rating 4.6
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Volume 3) George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 Orwell is widely regarded as one of the most thought-provoking and vividly written essayists of the twentieth century. With remarkable energy and unco…
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Volume 2) cover
Rating 4.6
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Volume 2) George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 One of the most thought-provoking and vividly written essayists of the twentieth century, Orwell is famed for his prodigious energy and uncompromising…
The Complete Essays and Miscellaneous Writings of Orwell (6-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.5
The Complete Essays and Miscellaneous Writings of Orwell (6-Volume Set) George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 Orwell is widely regarded as one of the most thought-provoking and vividly written essayists of the twentieth century. With remarkable energy and unco…
The Complete Works of George Orwell (12-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.5
The Complete Works of George Orwell (12-Volume Set) George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 Orwell is arguably one of the most thought-provoking and vividly written essayists of the twentieth century. With remarkable energy and uncompromising…
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Volume 1) cover
Rating 4.3
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Volume 1) George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 Orwell is widely regarded as one of the most thought-provoking and vividly written essayists of the twentieth century. With prodigious energy and an u…
Orwell's Wartime Writings cover
Rating 4.3
Orwell's Wartime Writings George Orwell / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 World War II was a pivotal event that profoundly shaped Orwell's life and intellectual outlook. In a war that once brought Britain to the brink of def…
Federer Style cover
Rating 4.2
Federer Style 马克·霍奇金森 / 陈超 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 A finely produced coffee-table book, Federer Style chronicles Roger Federer's extraordinary tennis career in high-definition color photographs and tex…

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University PressShanghai Translation Publishing HouseChina Translation & Publishing HousePeking University PressBeijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House