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Veteran translator's retrospect: Life and work
China.org.cn, 11 28, 2016
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| "I got to know of this play when we were liberated from Japanese puppet regime rule. At that time, I hadn't read the book How the Steel Was Tempered, so I found a completely different image in the play. Pavel Korchagin is a fine example of a foreign youth fighting for survival and victory and managing to keep advancing despite all the sacrifices he made and the pains he suffered. His story is so impressive that I decided to translate it. Pavel was a strange and shocking figure for me, because I had been educated under Japanese puppet rule and knew little about revolutionary history," Gao said. [Photo by Chen Boyuan/China.org.cn] |
