Works of Sholokhov Complete set of eight volumes

Author: (Soviet) Sholokhov; Jin Rencao Sun Meiling
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: The three translators of this collection are all outstanding translators in China. Jin Rencao's translation of And Quiet Flows the Don has been revised several times since its publication before liberation and has also been fully proofread by Jia Gang based on the new version determined before the author's death. Cao Ying's translations of short stories and The Land That Was Once Promised have also undergone nearly half a century of refinement. Svetlana Sholokhova, the eldest daughter of Sholokhov, upon learning of the publication of the Sholokhov Collection in China, gladly wrote an article expressing congratulations. In her article, she said, "Chinese readers will be interested in reading Sholokhov's novels, short stories, essays, and speeches. Perhaps, they will come to love his protagonists, and naturally, through these works, they will better understand the Russian people, their character, and their not-so-easy history. This is exactly what I hope for."
In the late 1920s, Lu Xun, the founder of China's new literature, was the first to take notice of Sholokhov's works. In 1928, the first part of And Quiet Flows the Don was published in the October magazine. The following year, Lu Xun invited He Fei to translate it and personally proofread it, as well as wrote the preface. In 1931, the Chinese translation of And Quiet Flows the Don was published by Shanghai Shenzhou Guanguo Press as one of the "Modern Literature Series" edited by Lu Xun. From then on, almost every work by Sholokhov that was published was quickly introduced to China. Especially One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which was published in Pravda, was translated into Chinese the very month it appeared, and there were even two different translations, which were published successively in Liberation Army Literature and Translated Texts. Such a phenomenon is hard to find in the history of Chinese translation.