Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t45.7

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were large in quantity and on a diverse number of topics, involving politics, economy, philosophy, culture, art and biography, but he was especially good in literary translation. He translated seven books, and more than one million words of short stories and essays. He translated the Indian English writer Mulk Raj Anand’s ‘Lalu Trilogy’, ‘Village’ (1983), ‘*Across the Black Waters*’ (1985) and ‘*The Sword and the Sickle*’ (2011). He followed the principle of faithfulness to accurately retell the storylines and objectively reflect the language style of the original works. In his translation of M. R. Anand, he wrote an introduction of Anand’s life and his works in the preface.