Talk:Lucy Chao

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Possible sources

Walt Whitman Sings Anew, But Now With a Chinese Lilt (1988 New York Times interview with Ms. Zhao)

An Interview with Zhao Luorui - Kenneth M. Price (1994)

A Single Tear - Wu Ningkun (1993) - Wu's memoir mentions Zhao (who he calls by her English name, Lucy) a number of times. On page 12, he mentions that Zhao's father was T. C. Chao, the theologian.

The Chinese-language article about Ms. Zhao contains some details that the English article does not:

• Born: May 9, 1912, Deqing County, Zhejiang
• Died: Jan 1, 1998
• lived in Suzhou during childhood, entered Jinghai Women's Normal School (苏州景海女子师范学校) in 1919.
• Attended Yangjing University, beginning in 1928 in the Chinese Department. Transferred to the English department in 1930, graduated in 1932. The same year, admitted to Tsinghua University in the 外国文学研究所 (Institute of Foreign Literature?)
• Married Chen Mengjia in 1936
• On July 9, 1946, T.S. Eliot invited Zhao and Chen to dinner, and thanked Zhao for her work translating "The Wasteland" into Chinese
• ... it goes on...

There is only one reference on the Chinese article, and it links to an archive.org page that's not working. The original title is 一代才女赵萝蕤教授; searching for that string on the web finds this page which is an obituary of sorts, written by Zhao's friend and colleague Wu Ningkun. The article appears to have been published in 中外书摘 ("Chinese and Foreign Book Summaries"), 2007, Issue 10, which can be found here. The originally published form, as far as I can tell, is at this link. I haven't checked whether this article verifies all of the facts listed above.

Finally, I believe there are a number of photographs of Zhao available on the web which have entered the public domain. There are several high quality photos in this blog post for instance. Any photo which includes Ms. Zhao's husband, Chen Mengjia (who died in 1966), are definitely public domain (According to Chinese law, copyright duration is fifty years from date of publication for photographs).

I plan to do some more research and hopefully expand the article in the near future. In the mean time, if you have any interest, feel free to contribute.

Jake Low (talk) 08:53, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

schizophrenia?

Any support for the claim that she had schizophrenia? I met her several times in the late 1980's and never saw any sign of that whatsoever. She was as rational as anyone I've ever known. I wonder whether it was a malicious diagnosis (like the notorious Soviet diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia" for dissidents). 98.115.255.240 (talk) 19:50, 16 April 2023 (UTC)