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Our China Stories | Episode 5: James Trapp

We are delighted to present Our China Stories, a series of conversations with five British China experts, exploring Chinese culture and history through their eyes. These five people, masters in their individual specialist disciplines, have dedicated their lives to the learning of Chinese history and culture, forming deep connections with the country, and seeking to enhance mutual understanding between China and the West. In the fifth and final episode of Our China Stories, we are in conversation with James Trapp, translator of numerous Chinese classics. His imagination was sparked when, as a teenager, he visited a major exhibition of archaeological finds from China at the Royal Academy, leading him to become one of only a handful of people, at that time, in the UK to study Chinese. His career in translation grew from producing books on Chinese characters and astrology to translating major classic works such as Sun Zi’s ‘Bing Fa’, and he has actively campaigned to introduce Mandarin as a subject in UK schools.