Qian Chunqi

Qian Chunqi (7 December 1921 – 3 February 2010) was a Chinese doctor and translator who won the Lu Xun Literary Prize (1996), a prestigious literary award in China.

He was most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the German writer Friedrich Nietzsche.

Biography
Qian was born in a wealthy family in Taizhou, Jiangsu on December 7, 1921, his father was a businessman.

Qian primarily studied at the Wanzhu School, then he attended Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai School. One year later, Shanghai was occupied by Japan, the school closed, Qian attended Jiangsu Provincial Yangzhou School.

Qian entered Anhui Medical University in 1940, majoring in Western medicine, where he graduated in 1946. After graduating he worked in Changzheng Hospital, at the same time, he learned German, Japanese, English, French and Russian by himself.

In 1966, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, the Red Guards confiscated his translations, he suffered political persecution.

Qian returned to work after the Chinese Economic Reform.

In 1995, Qian was employed as a translator in Shanghai Research Institute of Culture and History.

On February 3, 2010, Qian died of illness at Xuhui District Central Hospital, in Shanghai, aged 89.

Works

 * Thus Spoke Zarathustra
 * Poetry of Nietzsche (Friedrich Nietzsche)
 * Essays of Nietzsche (Friedrich Nietzsche)
 * Goethe's Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
 * Poetry of Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
 * Poetry of Heine (Heinrich Heine)

Awards

 * Lu Xun Literary Prize (1996)
 * Chinese Translation Association – Senior Translator (2001)