Song Shusheng

Song Shusheng
Song Shusheng
宋书声
Director of the Compilation and Translation Bureau
	In office; August 1980 – July 1996
Preceded by	Wang Huide [zh]
Succeeded by	Wei Jianhua [zh]
Personal details
Born	1928 (age 95–96); Xinhe County, Hebei, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Beijing Foreign Studies University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	宋书声
Traditional Chinese	宋書聲
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Sòng Shūshēng

Song Shusheng (Chinese: 宋书声; born 1928) is a Chinese translator and politician who served as director of the Compilation and Translation Bureau between 1980 and 1996. He was one of the founders of the Translators Association of China and also president of the association from 1998 to 2004.^[1]^[2] He was a representative of the 12th, 13th, and 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.^[3] He was a member of the 8th and 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[4]

Biography[edit]

Song was born in Xinhe County, Hebei, in 1928.^[5] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949.^[5] In 1949, he graduated from the Russian language class of the Foreign Language Department of the Second Department of North China University (now Beijing Foreign Studies University).^[6]^[7] In 1951, he became a translator in the Translation Office of Stalin's Complete Works by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.^[5] In 1953, he joined the newly founded Compilation and Translation Bureau, where he eventually became director in June 1980.^[5] He retired in 2005.^[5]

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Party political offices
Preceded by Wang Huide [zh]	Director of the Compilation and Translation Bureau 1980–1996	Succeeded by Wei Jianhua [zh]
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by Ye Shuifu	President of the Translators Association of China 1998–2004	Succeeded by Liu Xiliang