Xue Fan
Chinese translator (1934-2022) · China · On the map · Musicians · Died at 87
Xue Fan was a Chinese musicologist, translator, and leading figure in the adaptation of foreign songs into Chinese.
Xue Fan is read about 15 times a day, in 7 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 23 June 2026
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Xue Fan in 1953
Xue Fan in the 1950s (first from left)
1950s Shanghai publication of Chinese lyrics for "Moscow Nights", with "Xue Fan translated and adapted" faintly visible below.
Book cover and inscription gifted to Xue Fan by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi in 1957, returned by rebels after Cultural Revolution.Awards
About this person
His birth name was Wen Shengyuan (闻声远), and he also used the pen name Ji Zhimo (嵇志默).Over a career spanning more than seven decades, he translated and adapted more than 2,000 songs from outside mainland China, including over 1,000 from the Soviet Union and Russia, and compiled and published more than thirty collections of foreign songs. He was a member of the China Writers Association, Chinese Musicians' Association, and Translators Association of China, a national council member of the China-Russia Friendship Association, a guest professor at Shanghai Normal University, and an honorary committee member of the eighth session of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
