Author · China
Zeng Pu
Died in 1935
Zeng Pu was born in 1872 in Jiangsu, into a family of scholars. After a classical education and a first scholarly work, he learned French in 1895 at the school of foreign languages in Beijing, then from Chen Jitong, a diplomat who had served in France. In 1904 he founded in Shanghai a publishing house and a fiction magazine. According to the Huxiu site, he translated Hugo and Molière directly from French, and in 1927, with his son Zeng Xubai, created a second house devoted to French letters. He died in 1935.