Liang Shiqiu

Liang Shiqiu was born in Beijing, in January 1903 (in December 1902 according to Britannica). Trained at Tsinghua College, he left in 1923 for the United States, studied at Colorado College then at Harvard, where Irving Babbitt left a mark on him. Returning in 1926, he was one of the leading figures of the Crescent Moon Society and defended the autonomy of literature against Lu Xun and the writers of the left. He went to Taiwan in 1949, taught at the Normal University until 1966 and in 1967 completed his translation of the whole of Shakespeare, begun in 1930. He died in Taipei on 3 November 1987.

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• EssayFrom a Cottager's Sketchbook雅舍小品Liang Shiqiu · 1949Literature