Lu Gusun, chief editor of a beloved English-Chinese Dictionary, translator and foreign language professor at Fudan University, passed away at the age of 77 on the afternoon of July 28. Lu was a highly regarded figure in academia as well as a respected translator of European and American literature. He specialized in Shakespearean studies.

Lu’s dictionary is the largest dictionary ever independently compiled and edited by Chinese editors. It broke away from the earlier precedent of using a foreign dictionary as a blueprint. Since the two-volume set first came out in 1991, the dictionary has expanded to include 200,000 entries, 5,000 pages and around 20,000,000 words. More than 100,000 copies have been sold.