A NEW book about Shanghai writer Zhu Shenghao made its debut at the Shanghai Book Fair. Written by his son, Zhu Shanggang, and published by the Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, “Zhu Shenghao in Shanghai” tells the story of the renowned Chinese translator’s life and his relationship with the city.

Zhu is best known for his translations of the works of William Shakespeare. His son says he wrote the book so that people could know about his father’s life.

“The book contains three parts,” he said. “The first part is about my father’s life, and his love of my mother, the second part is about his translation works and the third part is his work about the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.” He added: “My father’s whole career was in Shanghai.”

Huang Fuhai, of the Shanghai Translators Association, said Zhu Shenghao was not only the pride of his hometown of Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province, but also the pride of Shanghai. “

He started his translation life in Shanghai, where he approached Shakespeare’s works.” Huang said. “Even after his translations were all burned in the fire of war, he redid them again after that.”

Another book launched at the fair was the “Visual Dictionary of Chinese Garment Cultural Relics in Different Dynasties” from the Shanghai Cishu Publishing House.

It has information about nearly 2,000 ancient garment cultural relics from home and abroad. The relics include clothes, paintings, pottery figurines, jade, stone and carving works.

Also making its debut at the fair was the English versions of the World Academic Classics series from Shanghai Translation Publishing House. This series of 18 volumes included both foreign and Chinese classics such as “On the Origin of Species” and Chinese philosophical text “Dao De Jing.”