Fu Lei

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Fu.

Fu Lei
Born	7 April 1908(1908-04-07) Nanhui District, Jiangsu, Qing Empire
Died	3 September 1966(1966-09-03) (aged 58) People's Republic of China
Cause of death	Suicide by poisoning
Alma mater	St. Ignatius High School University of Paris
Influenced by	Honoré de Balzac, Prosper Mérimée, Romain Rolland, Voltaire, Hippolyte Taine
Spouse	Zhu Meifu (m.1932)
Children	Fou Ts'ong (b.1934) Fou Min (b.1937)
Parents	Fu Pengfei (d.1912)

Fu Lei (傅雷, courtesy name Nu'an 怒安, pseudonym Nu'an 怒庵, 1908–1966), was a famous translator and art critic. He was born near Shanghai and raised by his mother. He studied art and art theory in France from 1928–1932. Upon his return to China, he taught in Shanghai and worked as a journalist and art critic until he took up translating. His translations, which remain highly regarded, include Voltaire, Balzac and Romain Rolland. He developed his own style, the "Fu Lei style," and his own translation theory. Though labeled a rightist in 1957, he persevered until 1966, when, at the start of the Cultural Revolution, he and his wife committed suicide. His family letters to his son Fou Ts'ong, a world-renowned pianist, were published posthumously and have become a bestseller in China to this day.

Fu's family

• Father-in-law: Zhu Hong
• Mother-in-law: Yang Xiuquan
• Wife: Zhu Meifu, born on 20 February 1913(1913-02-20), died on 3 September 1966(1966-09-03) (aged 53)

Selected works

• 1932: Rodin L'Art by Paul Gsell
• 1933: Chalot by Soupault
• 1934: 20 Lectures on World Masterpieces of Art
• 1934: Vie de Tolstoi by Rolland
• 1934: Vie de Michel-Ange by Rolland
• 1935: Voltaire by Maurois
• 1942: Vie de Beethoven by Rolland
• 1949: Eugénie Grandet by Balzac
• 1950: Le Père Goriot by Balzac
• 1953: Colomba by Mérimée
• 1953: Jean-Christophe by Rolland
• 1963: Philosophie de l'art by Taine