The tragic conscience of modern China's most revered critic-translator is portrayed in this biography. Discoveries made in Parisian archives by the biographer illuminate Fou Lei's youthful journey, a little-known cross-cultural story; a global intellectual history.

This edition is a revised version of Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth (Brill, 2017; Hermits United, 2023).

It is a concomitant publication of Fou Lai. Un heros vaincu, translated into the French by Mael Renouard.

About the Author
Mingyuan Hu is a British historian.

Reviews

'A powerfully argued and deeply moving study, linking Shanghai and Paris, of one of twentieth-century China's greatest and most courageous public intellectuals. Uncovering previously unknown primary sources that detail personal relationships in Paris, Hu Mingyuan charts the evolution of Fou Lei's resistance to authoritarianism and the seeds of his tragic demise.' - Claire Roberts, Professor of Art History at the University of Melbourne, author of Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong.

'Now Hu Mingyuan, a Chinese-British scholar, has published this impeccably researched and deeply sympathetic account of the evolution of Fou Lei's mental world. Throughout the book, Hu is never afraid to think laterally and creatively, infusing a lyrical quality into her writing, a quality which lifts her work far above the run-of-the-mill academic studies of modern Chinese culture.' - John Minford, Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the Australian National University, and Sin Wai Kin Distinguished Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.

'This is a ground-breaking biography of twentieth-century China's greatest translator. The discoveries rigorously 'A powerfully argued and deeply moving study, linking Shanghai and Paris, of one of twentieth-century China's greatest and most courageous public intellectuals. Uncovering previously unknown primary sources that detail personal relationships in Paris, Hu Mingyuan charts the evolution of Fou Lei's resistance to authoritarianism and the seeds of his tragic demise.' - Pierre Barroux, former Consul General of France in Shanghai.

Book Information
ISBN 9781739389796
Author Mingyuan Hu
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Hermits United
Publisher Hermits United
Dimensions(mm) 222mm * 150mm * 21mm