张维民

Zhang Weimin is an author about whom little public information is available. The library holds two of his works: a complete translation of the Moral Letters and a collection titled Youmeng Ji (Gathering of Sorrowful Dreams). His books are commonly classified under miscellaneous prose and foreign literature. Judging from these two titles, his writing spans both the translation of classical thought and personal essays: the former presents a foreign classic in complete translated form, suggesting competence in translation and editorial work, while the latter more likely displays his essayistic style and his reflection on life's anxieties and sorrows. Since his dates of birth and death, nationality, education, and career are not clearly recorded, this note refrains from supplying biographical details and instead sketches his profile from the available bibliographic information: an author-translator moving between the translation of foreign literature and the writing of essays, whose small output nonetheless shows a dual attention to classic texts and personal feeling.