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Li Gang is a Chinese translator known for rendering Russian and Soviet literature into Chinese. Public information about him is limited, and details such as his nationality and dates of birth and death remain unclear. Judging from the fourteen works held in the collection, his translations focus mainly on classics of foreign literature. Representative translations include Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Resurrection, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches. These are mostly full-length works from the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian novel and sketch traditions, touching on social criticism, moral inquiry, and the writing of human nature. Li Gang's translations strive to preserve the narrative rhythm and character voices of the originals, and have had a certain influence on the dissemination of Russian literary classics in the Chinese-speaking world, often appearing in books classified as foreign literature and world classics.