Feng Zhi

{{Short description|Chinese writer and translator}}

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Feng Zhi ({{zh|c=|p=Féng Zhì|w=Feng Chih|s=|t=馮至}}; 17 September 1905 – 22 February 1993) was a Chinese writer and translator. He was also the director and then honorary director of the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 1964.{{Cite book|title=中国大百科全书(第二版)|publisher=Encyclopedia of China Publishing House|year=2009|isbn=978-7-500-07958-3|volume=6|pages=578–9|language=zh|trans-title=Encyclopedia of China (2nd Edition)}}

Feng published several collections of poems, including Songs of Yesterday and Northern Journey and Other Poems, in his early life. Then he went to Germany and introduced the poetry of Rilke, Goethe, Heine, along with Novalis afterwards, thus he was bestowed Goethe Medal in the 1980s. He was also a scholar of Du Fu.{{Cite book|title=The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume II: From 1375.|last=Chang|first=Kang-i Sun|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-521-85559-4|pages=541}}

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