Ye Weiqu
Ye Weiqu was a Chinese Vietnamese translator and scholar. Ye was a visiting professor at Waseda University, Gakushuin University and Ritsumeikan University.
He was among the first few in China who translated the works of Yasunari Kawabata's into Chinese language.Biography
Ye was a Chinese Vietnamese born on Cholon, French Indo-China on August 6, 1929, with his ancestral home in Dongguan, Guangdong.
In 1952, Ye went to Beijing from Hong Kong, he graduated from Peking University, majoring in Japanese at the Department of East Language and Literature.
After graduation, he was appointed an editor to the People's Literature Publishing House and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, Ye and his wife Tang Yuemei's whole collection of books was burned by the Red Guards, the couple were sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to work in Henan.
In 1976, Hua Guofeng and Ye Jianying toppled the Gang of Four, the couple were rehabilitated by Deng Xiaoping, at the same time, they started to study Japanese literature.
Ye died of heart disease at Chuiyangliu Hospital, in Beijing, on December 11, 2010.Works
In 1956, Ye married his middle school sweetheart Tang Yuemei, also a translator, in Beijing.
