About the Author

Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen (Author) was an Austrian academic, sinologist, historian, author, and traveler. Max Knight (Editor) was the principal editor of the University of California Press (From 1950 to 1976), overseeing the publication of more than 200 books. He translated plays by Bertolt Brecht, poems by Christian Morgenstern, the correspondence between Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig and, most recently, works by Gottfried Benn. He also translated Ogden Nash into German.