Wen Jieruo (1927–)

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Wen Jieruo (1927–)

Chinese editor and translator. Born 1927 in China; m. Xiao Qian (journalist), 1954.

Studied Japanese in Japan and worked as translator and editor of Japanese literature; wrote Autobiography of a Hag (1990), about life with husband during Cultural Revolution, which was published in Taiwan; translations include Czech writer Julius Fuchik's Under the Gallows (1945).