A Collection of English and Esperanto Translations

Zhou Zuoren was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. He was the younger brother of Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren) and the brother of Zhou Jianren. Famous modern Chinese essayist, literary theorist, critic, poet, translator, thinker, pioneer of Chinese folklore, and outstanding representative of the New Culture Movement. He has successively served as professor and director of the Department of Oriental Literature at National Peking University, and director and visiting professor of the Department of New Literature at Yenching University. Zhou Zuo wrote quite a lot throughout his life. His prose style was gentle and dilute, clear and elegant. He wrote about personal leisure, loneliness and injustice in a gentle and dilute style, and played with the bitterness of life. He wrote more than 30 kinds of works, including "Art and Life", "My Own Garden", "Books on Rainy Days", "Collected Works of Zhitang" and "Talks by Bingzhu". Zhou Zuoren has also made outstanding contributions in translation. He is proficient in Japanese, ancient Greek and English, and has taught himself Old English and Esperanto. His translations include the complete translation of the ancient Greek comedy "God of Wealth", "Greek Mythology", "Aesop's Fables", the ancient Greek tragedy "The Tragedies of Euripides"; Japan's oldest surviving history book "Kojiki", the comedy short "Kyogen Selection", the masterpiece of Heian era essays "Pillow", the comic version of "Ukiyo Bathhouse", etc.