Professor and Ph.D. advisor of Shanghai Normal University, famous French translator

As a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, Zheng Kelu was born in Macau in August 1939. From 1957 to 1962, he majored in French in the Department of Western Languages and Literature[U1] , Peking University, and pursued master's degree in Institute of Foreign Literature at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1962 to 1965 and learned from Li Jianwu. After graduation, he worked in the institute until 1984, and during this period he went to Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III as a visiting scholar from 1981 to 1983. From 1984 to 1987, he was director of the Department of French in Wuhan University, and director of the Institute of French Studies (he was awarded as professor in 1985). He has been a teacher at Shanghai Normal University since 1987 and was Ph.D. advisor of the doctoral program of comparative and world literature, head of national key discipline, and head of Post-doctoral Mobile Station of Chinese Department. Social activities: he was vice chairman of National Academy of French Literature Study, vice chairman of Shanghai Translators Association, and vice chairman of Shanghai Comparative Literature Association.