Rate My Professor Zhizhong Zhang

Zhang specializes in the English translation of Chinese poetry, with emphasis on classics and poetry translation aesthetics. He has directed key projects including 'Research on Aesthetics of Chinese Poetry English Translation,' a National Social Science Foundation project (2013–2014), and 'Research on the Genre of Chinese Poetry English Translation Style,' a Tianjin Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning key project (2015–2018). His scholarly output features monographs such as Xu Yuanchong and the Art of Translation (Hubei Education Press, 2006), Comparative Study on English Translation of Mao Zedong's Poems (China Social Sciences Press, 2008), and Aesthetic Studies of Han Poetry English Translation (Commercial Press, 2015); over 90 translated works, notably 800 English Translations of Tang Poetry Quatrains: A Comparison Between Chinese and English (Wuhan University Press, 2019) and Three Hundred Tang Poems (in Chinese and English) (Global Culture Press, 2016); and more than 100 academic papers. Zhang serves as Director and English Secretary General of the World Sinology and Literature China Research Association, Director of the Professional Committee on English Translation of Classics of China Association for Comparative Studies Between English and Chinese, Director of Tianjin Society of Comparative Literature, and holds various editorial roles including Guest Editor in Chief of World Poet Quarterly and English Editor in Chief of World Sinology. His honors include the third prize of the 15th Tianjin Social Science Excellent Achievement Award (2018), selection into Tianjin's discipline leading talent training plan (2017) and high-level talents project (2013), and the Translation Award of China Contemporary Poetry Award (2011).