Dennis Ding

Dennis Ding was born in southwest China and graduated in foreign language and literature from Guiyang Normal College and Guizhou University. He has studied as a visiting scholar at Oakland University in Michigan (1985–86) and at Oxford University, England (1988). He has taught English for several years at Guizhou University, where he has been Dean and is now Chairman of foreign languages. His translations from English to Chinese include more than one hundred works by T.S. Eliot, Pound, H. D., Frost, W.C. Williams, Roethke, Bellow, Hemingway, and a few other novelists including Agatha Christie. Many of his translations have appeared in leading Chinese publications. He has also edited textbooks of English and American literature for use in Chinese universities. He is a co-translator of The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry since the Cultural Revolution.