Zhao Zhenjiang

Zhao Zhenjiang (February 1940-), born in Niulanshan, Shunyi, Beijing, is a researcher and translator of Chinese Spanish and Portuguese literature, a member of the Communist Party of China, and the husband of Duan Ruochuan. He retired from the Department of Spanish at Peking University in 2005 with the senior title of professor and is still a doctoral supervisor. Member of the Foreign Literary Exchange Committee of the Chinese Writers Association, director of the China Foreign Literature Society, president of the Chinese Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Literature Research Association, and one of the initiators of the Confucius Peace Prize. In 1959, he was admitted to the French Department of Peking University, majoring in Spanish. After the Spanish major was opened in 1960, he was transferred with Zhao Deming, Duan Ruochuan and others. After graduation, he has stayed at the school to teach until now. He has translated many Spanish works. The Chilean-Chinese Cultural Association awarded him the Order of Rubén Dario in 1995, the King of Spain awarded him the Order of Queen Isabel in 1998, the President of Argentina awarded him the Order of May, Knight in 1999, and the President of Chile awarded him the Neruda Centennial Medal in 2004. In 2004, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China named him a national model teacher. In 2022, he won the Translation Culture Lifetime Achievement Award from the Translators Association of China.