Jingzhou Shi, born in 1978 in Shanxi province, studied German language and literature at Xi'an Foreign Language University and Beijing Foreign Language University. She has worked as a freelance translator since 2003 and has translated several German works into Chinese, including the German Book Prize-winning novel The Have-Nots by Katharina Hacker and How the World Revolution Once Accidentally Started in the Black Forest by Adrian Geiges. She has participated several times in the Goethe-Institut's translation support programmes, the results being Chinese translations of works in the humanities and arts, such as Gender@Wissen. A Handbook of Gender Theories and Faces. A History of the Face by Hans Belting and Dada. A Hundred Years by Martin Mittelmeier. She has also translated numerous German books for children and young adults.
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Katharina Hacker: Die Habenichtse Adrian Geiges: Wie die Weltrevolution einmal aus Versehen im Schwarzwald begann Christina von Braun und Inge Stephan (Hg.): Gender@Wissen. Ein Handbuch der Gender-Theorien Hans Belting: Faces. Eine Geschichte des Gesichts Martin Mittelmeier: Dada. Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte
