高慧勤

Also known as: 高慧勤 编选, 高慧勤编选

Notable works
Snow CountrySnow CountryRashomon: A Collection of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Classic Masterpieces (Illustrated Collector's Edition)

26 written works

About the author

Gao Huiqin is an important Chinese-language translator of Japanese literature. Public information about her is limited, and no clear records of her dates of birth and death, nationality, or educational background are available. Twenty-six of her works are held in the collection, mainly classics of foreign literature. Her representative translations include Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country and The Old Capital, as well as Rashomon: A Collection of Classic Works by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (illustrated collector's edition). These works show that she has long been devoted to translating modern and contemporary Japanese classic fiction, with selections centering on representative works by writers such as Kawabata Yasunari and Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Her translations strive to preserve the delicate psychological description and understated aesthetic quality of the originals, with elegant and restrained language, serving as an important bridge for Chinese readers of Japanese literary classics.

Written (26)

Rashomon: A Collection of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Classic Masterpieces (Illustrated Collector's Edition) cover
Rating 4.7
Rashomon: A Collection of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Classic Masterpieces (Illustrated Collector's Edition) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 高慧勤 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This illustrated collector's edition of Rashomon: Selected Classic Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa gathers 24 of the most enduring short stories and no…
Snow Country cover
Rating 4.6
Snow Country Kawabata Yasunari / 魏大海 / 高慧勤 / 侯为 · 2026 A tangle of body and soul, burning itself out in futile love. Beyond the long tunnel at the border lies the snow country. Outside the window, the ceas…
Rashomon · Hell Screen cover
Rating 4.6
Rashomon · Hell Screen Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 魏大海 / 郑民钦 / 高慧勤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 This series of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's works collects the novels, essays, criticism, travel writing, notes, and poetry he produced during a creative car…
The Heretic Sect · In a Bamboo Grove cover
Rating 4.4
The Heretic Sect · In a Bamboo Grove Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 魏大海 / 高慧勤 / 侯为 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 This series is based on the eight-volume Complete Works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa published by Chikuma Shobō, presenting Akutagawa's creative career in f…
Snow Country cover
Rating 4.8
Snow Country Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2023 "The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country. The earth lay white under the night sky..." Shimamura, a Tokyo dance critic, travels th…
Snow Country cover
Rating 4.8
Snow Country Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 Snow Country follows Shimamura, a researcher of dance, on his three visits to a hot-spring inn in the snow country, where he becomes entangled with Ko…
The Old Capital cover
Rating 4.7
The Old Capital Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 The Old Capital tells of Chieko, abandoned by her parents in infancy because of the family's poverty and raised by the merchant Taikichiro and his wif…
Snow Country cover
Rating 4.7
Snow Country Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 · 2023 Snow Country is one of Yasunari Kawabata's works that won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Shimamura, a young man, travels three times to the snow-cover…
Snow Country cover
Rating 4.7
Snow Country Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2023 In 1968, Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his three representative works Snow Country, The Old Capital, and Thousand Cranes. Th…
The Old Capital cover
Rating 4.7
The Old Capital Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2023 In a corner of Kyoto, Chieko, adopted by a family of kimono merchants, has grown into a graceful young woman. On the night of the Gion Festival, she m…
The Old Capital cover
Rating 4.6
The Old Capital Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2023 In 1968, Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his three representative works Snow Country, The Old Capital, and Thousand Cranes. Th…
Rashomon cover
Rating 4.5
Rashomon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 高慧勤 Guwuxuan Publishing House · 2023 This collection brings together several short stories by the Japanese literary master Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, most notably "Rashōmon" and "In a Grove." W…
Thousand Cranes cover
Rating 4.5
Thousand Cranes Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2023 Kikuji's father was a famous tea ceremony master who had an affair with a woman named Chikako Kurimoto, and later fell in love with Mrs. Ota. Four yea…
The Izu Dancer cover
Rating 4.5
The Izu Dancer Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2023 On the drizzly mountain paths of Izu, a young student from Tokyo falls in with a troupe of traveling entertainers and joins them on their way. He is d…
The Old Capital cover
Rating 4.5
The Old Capital Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 · 2023 One of Yasunari Kawabata's works that contributed to his Nobel Prize in Literature. In Kyoto, an elderly couple runs a long-established fabric shop, a…
Snow Country cover
Rating 4.5
Snow Country Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 Snow Country follows Shimamura, a man who lives off inherited wealth and devotes himself to studying an imagined Western dance tradition, as he visits…
Collected Literary Works of Ryunosuke Akutagawa (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
Collected Literary Works of Ryunosuke Akutagawa (3 Volumes) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 高慧勤 / 熊韵 / 王晗 Guwuxuan Publishing House · 2023 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Literary Collection (3-volume set: Rashōmon + Hell Screen + Travels in China) Travels in China is a record of observations written…
The Old Capital cover
Rating 4.4
The Old Capital Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 Set in Kyoto as it shifted between the classical and the modern after the Second World War, *The Old Capital* centers on the young Chieko and the year…
Thousand Cranes cover
Rating 4.4
Thousand Cranes Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 · 2023 Thousand Cranes is one of Kawabata Yasunari's works that won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many years after his father's death, the young Kikuji sudd…
Thousand Cranes cover
Rating 4.3
Thousand Cranes Kawabata Yasunari / 高慧勤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 *Thousand Cranes* is a collection of short fiction by Yasunari Kawabata, comprising *Thousand Cranes* and its sequel, *The Waves of a Thousand Birds*.…

Publishers

Shanghai Translation Publishing HouseChina Friendship Publishing CompanyGuwuxuan Publishing HouseShidai Literature Publishing HouseJiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing HouseYangtze River Literature and Art Publishing HouseShaanxi Normal University PressQingdao Publishing House