Cheng Hong

Biography

Cheng was born in Zhengzhou, Henan, in 1957. She secondary studied at Zhengzhou No.7 Middle School. During the Cultural Revolution, she became a sent-down youth in Guangkuo Tiandi Township, Jia County, Henan. After the resumption of college entrance examination in 1977, she was accepted to the PLA College of Foreign Languages (now PLA Information Engineering University). After graduation, she engaged in advanced studies at Tsinghua University, where she met her future husband Li Keqiang.

In 1991, Cheng translated the BBC book about the popular British TV series, Yes Minister.

In 1995, Cheng was a visiting scholar in the United States at Brown University. Cheng taught at Beijing Institute of Economics (Capital University of Economics and Business).

Considered one of the leading Chinese scholars of American nature writing, as of 2012 she had published two books on the subject and translated several books from English to Chinese, including The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd Olson, and The Outermost House by Henry Beston.