1. George Kao was a Chinese American author, translator, and journalist.
11 Facts About George Kao
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George Kao is best known for translating English-language classics into Chinese and for his efforts to bring Chinese classics to English-speaking audiences.
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George Kao graduated from Yenching University in 1933 and returned to the United States, enrolling in the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he received a Master's degree in 1935, and Columbia University, where he received a Master's degree in 1937.
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George Kao served as a correspondent for China Press and China Weekly Review in Shanghai.
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George Kao returned to Kensington, Maryland in 1976 and lived in Rockville, Maryland and in Florida for the remainder of his life.
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George Kao's wife of 57 years, Maeching Li Kao was born on ca.
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George Kao was prolific as a translator from both English to Chinese and Chinese to English.
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George Kao is known in the Chinese world as the translator of several classics of English-language literature and as the author of several books on the English language and about the United States.
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George Kao, he was Co-Editor of a popular New Dictionary of Idiomatic American English, published by both the Chinese University Press and Peking University Press in traditional and simplified Chinese editions, respectively.
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George Kao contributed a number of translations to the journal himself.
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George Kao edited or translated several of Taiwan author Pai Hsien-yung's collections into English.