Zhong Zhiqing
钟志清

Years of Stay at HYI

Sep 2011 to Jul 2012

Apr 2025 to Aug 2025

ZHONG Zhiqing, BA and MA of Beijing Normal University, PhD of Ben-Gurion University, full professor and director of the Department of Eastern Literary Studies at the Institute of Foreign Literature, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). She is the author of 20th Century Hebrew Literature in Transition (monograph), which has been selected to the National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences; A Study of Contemporary Israeli Authors (monograph); To Put A Finger on the Wound: Reading Hebrew Literature and Culture (collection of literary essays); Hebrew Narrative and Jewish Identity (monograph); and A Study of the History of Biblical Interpretation (co-authored); editor and translator of Hebrew Classics: A Collection of Criticism (co-worked); and translator of a dozen of Hebrew literary works, including Modern Hebrew Fiction by Gershon Shaked, The Rebirth of Hebrew Literature (with PhD students) My Michael, Black Box, A Tale of Love and Darkness, etc., by Amos Oz, and “Khirbet Khizeh” by S. Yizhar.

Currently, she is working on an important project titled A History of Hebrew Literature for Chinese readership at the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Recent Publications

Works:

  1. 《希伯来叙事与民族认同研究》,北京:社会科学文献出版社,2022年。(Hebrew Narrative and Israeli Identity, Beijing: Social Science Academic Press , 2022.)
  2. 《希伯来经典学术史研究》,南京:译林出版社, 2019年。(A Study of the History of Biblical Interpretation, Nanjing: Yilin Press, 2019.)

Translations:

  1. 伊兹哈尔:《黑泽废墟》,杭州:浙江人民出版社,2024年。(S.Yizhar, Khirbet Khiza, Hangzhou: Zhejiang People’s Press, 2024.)
  2. 伊戈尔·施瓦茨:《希伯来文学的再生》(与博士生合译),杭州:浙江人民出版社,2022年。(Yigal Schwartz:The Rebirth of Hebrew Literature, co-translated with my PhD students, Hangzhou: Zhejiang People’s Press, 2022.)
  3. 阿摩司与范妮亚·奥兹:《犹太人与词语》,南京:译林出版社,2019年。(Amos and Fania Oz-Salzberger, Jews and Words, Nanjing: Yilin Press, 2019.)
  4. 《希伯来经典研究文集》(编选并主译),南京:译林出版社,2019年。(Hebrew Classics: A Collection of Criticism, ed., Yilin Press, 2019)

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