Lin Shaohua

Lin Shaohua (born 1952) is a Chinese translator and author. He is a translator in China who translated the works of Haruki Murakami's into Chinese language.

Biography
Lin was born in Jiutai, Jilin, with his ancestral home in Penglai, Shandong. After meddle school, he worked in the countryside as a farmer before the Cultural Revolution. He received his MA degree from Jilin University in 1982, majoring in Japanese language.

From 1982 to 1993, Lin taught Japanese language in Jinan University with his wife, and during 1993 to 1996, Lin taught in Nagasaki Prefectural University. In 1999, Lin was transferred from Xiamen to Qingdao where he was appointed as a professor.

Translations

 * Hear the Wind Sing
 * Pinball, 1973
 * A Wild Sheep Chase
 * Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
 * Norwegian Wood
 * Dance Dance Dance
 * South of the Border, West of the Sun
 * The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
 * Sputnik Sweetheart
 * Kafka on the Shore
 * After Dark
 * A Slow Boat to China
 * Firefly
 * The Elephant Vanishes
 * The Silence
 * Kokoro (Natsume Sōseki)
 * Rashomon (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) )
 * The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Yukio Mishima)
 * The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima)
 * The Decay of the Angel (Yukio Mishima)
 * The Road of  (Kaii Higashiyama)
 * Socrates in Love (Kyoichi Katayama)
 * The Dancing Girl of Izu (Yasunari Kawabata)
 * Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)

Proses

 * The Beauty of the Fallen Flowers
 * Nostalgia and Conscience