Cao Ying

Sheng Junfeng (; March 23, 1923 – October 25, 2015), better known by his pen name Cao Ying, was a Chinese translator. Sheng was one of the main translators of the works of Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Sholokhov into Chinese. In 1987, he was honored by the Government of the Russian Federation with the Maxim Gorky Literature Prize. He was the only Chinese translator to have won that award. Biography Born in a wealthy family in Zhenhai County, Kuaiji Dao, Zhejiang in 1923, both his grandfather and father were doctors. His mother, Xu Shujuan, was a daughter of an eminent family. His elder maternal cousin, Xu Xu, was a romantic novelist. And his great-grandfather was the founder of Shengziji Soy Sauce Brewery, which participated in exhibition on Panama World's Fair in 1915. He graduated from The Lester School and Henry Lester Institute of Technical Education Attached School, Songjiang School, and Nantong Agricultural College. In December 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, he moved to Shanghai with his family to escape the violence, by age 14.