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Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
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Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
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Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
Robert van Gulik
Dutch orientalist, diplomat and writer (1910–1967)
Arthur Waley
British orientalist and sinologist (1889–1966)
Chao Yuen Ren
Chinese-American linguist and educator (1892–1982)
James Legge
Scottish missionary and translator (1815–1897)
Herbert Giles
British sinologist and diplomat (1845–1935)
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Lisa Lu
Chinese actress (born 1927)
Qiu Xiaolong
Chinese-American writer
Lionel Giles
British sinologist, writer and philosopher (1875–1958)
Gu Hongming
Chinese writer (1857–1928)
Homer H. Dubs
American sinologist (1892-1969)
Burton Watson
American sinologist, translator, and writer (1925–2017)
Gladys Yang
British translator of Chinese literature (1919–1999)
Samuel Beal
British oriental scholar (1825–1889)
Chen Maiping
Chinese writer
Sidney Shapiro
American translator (1915–2014)
Yang Xianyi
Chinese literary translator (1915–2009)
Witter Bynner
American poet, writer and scholar (1881-1968)
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William Edward Soothill
British sinologist (1861–1935)
Edna Worthley Underwood
American writer and translator (1873–1961)
Thomas Cleary
American author and translator (1949-2021)
Xu Yuanchong
Translator of Chinese poetry (1921-2021)
Stephen Mitchell
American translator and adapter of fairy tale, folklore, myth, and the Bible
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Howard Goldblatt
American translator
Florence Wheelock Ayscough
American sinologist, writer and translator
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Linda Jaivin
translator, essayist and novelist
David Hawkes
British sinologist and translator (1923–2009)
Perry Link
American sinologist
Arthur Sze
American poet
David Tod Roy
American translator
Helen Wang
translator
Michael Rank
British academic
Julia Lovell
British sinologist
Lloyd Haft
poet and translator
Thomas Watters
British diplomat in China and Korea, sinologist
Gia-Fu Feng
American translator (1919–1985)