Tian Dawei

Tian Dawei (; August 1931 – 12 June 2013) was a Chinese translator and official. He served as vice president of the National Library of China, and was an official in the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. Tian was among the first in China who translated some works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn into Chinese. Biography Tian was born in a highly educated family, in 1931, in Beijing, the son of An E, a poet and translator, and Tian Han, a playwright who wrote the lyrics for March of the Volunteers in 1934. In 1936, Tian studied at a primary school in Baoding, Hebei. In 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Tian fled to Shaanxi.