Born in Nanchang CityJiangi Province in 1921, he graduated from the Southwest Associated University and Université de Paris. Mr. Xu is a professor of literary translation at Peking University. His English publications include On Cbinese Verse in Englisb Ryme and Vanisbe Springs. In addition to Songs oftbe Immortals published by Penguin Books, he has translated many Chinese literary classics into English or French, such as Book ofPoetry,Elegies oftbe South, 300 Tang Poems,300 SongLyrics,Selecte Poems ofLi Bai Poems and Lyrics of Su Dongpo,Romance of Western Bower and Tbe Selecte Poems of Mao Zedong.He has also translated some world literary classics, such as Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, into Chinese.Prof.Xu won the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation conferred by the Translators Association of China (TAC) in 2010,and won“the Aurora Borealis" Prize for Outstanding Translation of Fiction Literature, conferred by the Federation of International Translators(FIT) in 2014.