Just the other day I took questions from students in Professor Lucas Klein’s Stylistics & Translation class at HK City U. Given that I’ve translated two Chinese novels written by female authors, what did I think about men translating women’s writing, particularly works narrated by a woman in the first person?

I wonder: did anyone put the same query to Shanghai Normal University Professor Zheng Kelu (郑克鲁) when he embarked on his translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist classic, Le Deuxième Sexe (第二性)?