{{short description|Chinese translator (1930–2022)}} {{Family name hatnote|Gui|lang=Chinese}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox writer | image = | caption = | name = Gui Yufang | native_name = 桂裕芳 | native_name_lang = zh | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|9|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Wuhan, Hubei, China | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|22|1930|9|21|df=y}} | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Translator | language = Chinese, French | alma_mater = Tsinghua University<br>Peking University | period = 1953–2022 | genre = Novel | subject = | movement = | notable_works = ''The Complete Works of Maupassant'' | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> }}
'''Gui Yufang''' ({{zh|c=桂裕芳|p=Guì Yùfāng}}; 21 September 1930<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8wUAQAAMAAJ&q=%E6%A1%82%E8%A3%95%E8%8A%B3+1930 | title=燕园师林: 北京大学博士生指导教师简介 | isbn=9787301029961 | author1=北京大学研究生院 | year=1991 }}</ref> – 22 December 2022) was a Chinese translator. She was one of the foremost translators into Chinese of the works of the French novelist Guy de Maupassant.
==Biography== Gui was born in Wuhan, Hubei in 1930.<ref name="tang" >{{cite web |url=http://www.cbi.gov.cn:8080/wisework/content/6328.html |title=Gui Yufang |accessdate= |publisher= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108020956/http://www.cbi.gov.cn:8080/wisework/content/6328.html |archive-date=8 January 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She entered Tsinghua University in 1949, majoring in French at the Department of Foreign Language, where she graduated in 1952.<ref name="tang" />
In 1952, universities in China underwent a nationwide reshuffling. She was educated at the Department of French Language, Peking University from 1952 to 1953.<ref name="tang" /> After graduation, Gui taught at Peking University.<ref name="tang" /><ref>{{cite web |url= http://sfl.pku.edu.cn/en/list.php?catid=103|title= Peking University|accessdate= |publisher= }}</ref> Gui started to publish works in 1957.
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, she was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to work with her children in Jiangxi.
In 1976, Hua Guofeng and Ye Jianying toppled the Gang of Four, she was rehabilitated, she returned to Beijing and taught at Peking University.
Gui retired in 1997. She died on 22 December 2022, at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite web |title=桂裕芳先生讣告 |url=http://sfl.pku.edu.cn/tzgg/146113.htm |website=Peking University |access-date=24 December 2022}}</ref>
==Translation== * ''The Complete Works of Maupassant'' (Guy de Maupassant) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|莫泊桑全集}}) * ''In Search of Lost Time'' (Marcel Proust) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|追忆逝水年华}}) * (Marcel Proust) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|在少女花影下：斯万夫人周围}})<ref>{{cite book |language=zh|author=Marcel Proust |script-title=zh:在少女花影下：斯万夫人周围 |date=1 July 2012 |publisher=New World Press |location= |pages= |isbn=9787510429453}}</ref> * ''Little Good-For-Nothing'' (Alphonse Daudet) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|小东西}}) * ''{{langx|fr|La Modification}}'' (Michelle Buto) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|变}}) * ''Childhood'' (Natalie Sarraute) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|童年}}) * (Margaret Duras) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|夏夜十点半钟}})<ref>{{cite book |language=zh|author=Margaret Duras |script-title=zh:夏夜十点半钟 |date=1 October 2010 |publisher=Shanghai Translation Publishing House |location=Shanghai |pages= |isbn=9787532751747 }}</ref> * (Margaret Duras) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|无耻之徒}}) * (Margaret Duras) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|写作}})<ref>{{cite book |language=zh|author=Margaret Duras |script-title=zh:写作 |date=1 March 2011 |publisher=Shanghai Translation Publishing House|location=Shanghai |pages= |isbn=9787532753062 }}</ref> * (Francois Mauriac) ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|爱的荒漠}})<ref>{{cite book |language=zh|author=Francois Mauriac |script-title=zh:爱的荒漠 |date=1 July 2013 |publisher=Shanghai Translation Publishing House |location=Shanghai |pages= |isbn=9787532145683 }}</ref>
==Awards== * Chinese Translation Association – Competent Translator (2004)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gui, Yufang}} Category:1930 births Category:2022 deaths Category:Writers from Wuhan Category:Tsinghua University alumni Category:Peking University alumni Category:French–Chinese translators Category:20th-century Chinese translators Category:21st-century Chinese translators