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About the author

Tang Jianqing is a Chinese translator and literary editor about whom limited public information is available; his work centers on the translation and compilation of foreign literature and classics. Eight of his works are held in the collection, covering foreign literature, literary appreciation, and classic works. His representative translations include Tender Is the Night in the Complete Translations of World Literary Classics series, Strong Opinions in the Selected Works of Nabokov, The Screen of China: Collected Works of Maugham, and works such as The King's Representative, The High Window, and The Beloved, along with Literary Critics. The list suggests that he has long worked on translating and selecting English-language classics, covering both novels and critical essays, with authors including Fitzgerald, Nabokov, and Maugham. His translations are aimed at general readers, in a plain style that values readability and preserves the flavor of the originals, offering usable editions for Chinese readers interested in twentieth-century English literature.

Written (8)

Renowned Translators' Unabridged World Literature Classics: Tender Is the Night cover
Rating 4.7
Renowned Translators' Unabridged World Literature Classics: Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald / 唐建清 Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The story of Tender Is the Night takes place in Europe, yet the novel still portrays social life in America's Jazz Age. Dick Diver is a promising youn…
Expressing One's Own Views (Selected Works of Nabokov) cover
Rating 4.5
Expressing One's Own Views (Selected Works of Nabokov) Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov / 唐建清 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 Speak, Memory is a self-compiled collection by Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and master novelist, built chiefly around interviews with such outle…
Revolutionaries of Literary Criticism cover
Rating 4.3
Revolutionaries of Literary Criticism Terry Eagleton / 唐建清 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 This latest work by Terry Eagleton reviews one by one the various key advances made in literary criticism by five critics—T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards,…
The Loved One cover
Rating 4.1
The Loved One Evelyn Waugh / 唐建清 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2019 A friend's death draws Dennis Barlow—an Englishman in America, poet and pet undertaker—into a world he has long admired: Whispering Glades, a cemetery…
Speaking One's Mind cover
Rating 4.3
Speaking One's Mind Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov / 唐建清 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2018 Strong Opinions is a self-edited collection by Vladimir Nabokov, widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's outstanding novelists and stylists,…
His Majesty's Representative cover
Rating 4.0
His Majesty's Representative W. Somerset Maugham / 唐建清 / 周成林 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2018 In the winter of 1919–1920, W. Somerset Maugham, then forty-five, traveled to China and journeyed some fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze. The produ…
The High Window cover
Rating 4.0
The High Window Raymond Chandler / 唐建清 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2017 In the five essays and several long letters collected in this book, Chandler sets aside the gangster slang and street jargon he knows so well, and wit…
On a Chinese Screen: Maugham Collected Works cover
Rating 4.3
On a Chinese Screen: Maugham Collected Works W. Somerset Maugham / 唐建清 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2016 In the winter of 1919–1920, W. Somerset Maugham, then forty-five, traveled to China and journeyed 1,500 miles up the Yangtze. On a Chinese Screen is t…

Publishers

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing HouseShanghai Translation Publishing HouseChunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House