As Shanghai flourished as a multinational hub for finance and business in the 1930s, it also became home to many prominent Chinese writers and translators, who lived and worked in Shanghai during that period.

As an important hub of international trade, Shanghai not only imported Western goods, but also Western art and literature. The early 20th century witnessed the first large-scale introduction of Western books to China and Shanghai became the base for some of China’s greatest literary translators.

See: CRI English