A Translation of Selected Poems by Du Mu

Professor Zhang Zhizhong is Dean of the Translation Department at the Foreign Languages College of Nankai University, China, and Director of the Center for the Globalization of Chinese Poetry at the same institution. He is also Director of the Translators' Association of China, Vice Chairman of the Committee for English Translation of Chinese Classics of the Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese, the guest editor of Rendition of International Poetry, the English editor-in-chief of World Sinology, a member of the editing board of Guided Reading Series in Contemporary Chinese Poetry, and a member of the Board for Contemporary Chinese Poetry Prizes. His research interests focus on poetry translation, a topic on which he has published nearly 120 books and 120 academic papers, and he has won a host of prizes in translation and academic research. His English translation of Chinese poetry is widely acclaimed throughout the world, and is favorably reviewed by international poets and translators.