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Lucy Chao was born on 9 May, 1912, is a Chinese poet and translator. Discover Lucy Chao's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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1912

Lucy Chao or Zhao Luorui (May 9, 1912 – January 1, 1998) was a Chinese poet and translator.

Chao was born on May 9, 1912, in Xinshi, Deqing County, Zhejiang, China.

1932

She married Chen Mengjia, an anthropologist and expert on oracle bones, in 1932.

1937

Chao translated T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1937), Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha and eventually saw a mass publication of her translation of the whole of Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1991).

1944

In 1944 Chao and Chen were awarded a joint fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation to study at the University of Chicago in the United States.

1948

Chao earned her PhD from the institution in 1948, for a dissertation on Henry James.

Afterward, she returned to China to teach English and North American literature at Yenching University, Beijing.

1950

Chao's husband Chen opposed the government's proposal to simplify Chinese writing in the 1950s and was labeled a Rightist and an enemy of the Communist Party.

1957

He was sent to a labor camp in 1957.

After he returned, he was banned from publishing research and committed suicide after denunciation and persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

After Chen's death, Chao developed schizophrenia.

1979

She was a co-editor of the first Chinese-language History of European Literature (1979).

1991

In spite of this, she created the first complete Chinese translation of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, which was published in 1991.

That same year, she was awarded the University of Chicago's "Professional Achievement Award".