abstract:François Cheng (Traditional Chinese:程抱一;pinyin: Chéng Bàoyī) (born 30 August 1929 in Nanchang, Jiangxi) is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese.