Two renowned Russian-to-Chinese translators in China recently died from COVID-19 as the coronavirus sweeps through the country.
Long-time translators Lou Ziliang and Wang Zhiliang died in the first week of 2023.
Both men had translated large amounts of Soviet and Russian literature.
Their deaths come as observers have noted that China’s recent COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in the deaths of many scientists, scholars, and celebrities, most of whom were members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or people who stood up for the CCP.
Lou Ziliang
In the early morning of Jan. 4, Lou, a member of the Shanghai Translators Association and associate editor of Shanghai Translation Publishing House, died at the age of 90….