About the author

Gong Mi, born in 1973 and a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, is an associate professor and deputy head of the Department of French at the School of Foreign Languages, Capital Normal University. He holds a doctorate from the Department of French at Peking University and researches modern French literature and the history of literary thought. His monograph A Study of Perec received the second prize of the Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Excellent Achievement Award. As a translator, he has rendered Georges Perec's Things and Denis Diderot's The Skeptic's Walk and D'Alembert's Dream, among other works. Four of his works are included in the library, spanning classics, foreign literature, and essays. His translations reflect a sustained engagement with French Enlightenment literature and modern and contemporary French narrative, combining scholarly accuracy with readable Chinese prose and offering Chinese readers a reliable path into French literature and thought.

Written (4)

Rating 4.6★ Collected Works of Diderot (8-Volume Set) 德尼·狄德罗 / 罗芃 / Gong Mi / 余中先 · 2024 This set collects eight volumes of Diderot's works: Philosophical Thoughts, Rameau's Nephew, The Nun, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master, The Skeptic… Rating 4.4★ Things (50th Anniversary Edition) 乔治·佩雷克 / Gong Mi Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2023 If the pursuit of happiness kills happiness, is happiness still worth pursuing? This is the breakout novel by Georges Perec, the French literary prodi… Rating 4.3★ D'Alembert's Dream 德尼·狄德罗 / Gong Mi / Zhou Mang / 罗芃 · 2023 The Dream of d'Alembert is the sixth volume of the Collected Works of Diderot. Taking its title from Diderot's famous philosophical paper, it includes… Rating 4.0★ The Skeptic's Walk 德尼·狄德罗 / Gong Mi / 王斯秧 / 罗芃 · 2023 A skeptic's walk through philosophy, religion, and society. "Diderot's Walk of a Skeptic" opens the fifth volume of the Diderot Collected Works with i…

Publishers

Shanghai People's Publishing House