Cheng Hong
Cheng Hong (程虹) is an English professor and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's wife.
Cheng was born to a family of intellectuals in 1957 in Henan Province. Her father, Cheng Jinrui, was leader of the Henan Communist Youth League, and her mother, Liu Yiqing, was a journalist for Xinhua News Agency.
Cheng went to the countryside as a youth during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Later, she went to Peking University for English studies, where she met her husband LiKeqiang, the then leader of the Communist Youth League at Peking University.
Shortly after their marriage, Cheng took a teaching post at the Capital University of Economics and Business. She got opportunities for mid-career studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and received a degree of Doctor of Letters in 2000. She was appointed a full professor one year later.
Cheng was a visiting scholar at Brown University in the United States and developed her interest in US and British writings on nature and ecology.
Cheng is one of the forerunners in Chinese study of US nature writing. She has been writing books, translating American authors, and writing columns to systematically introduce the school of literature and its relevant literary theories to Chinese readers.
She is also a member of the university's academic board and has published and translated several books on American natural literature.
Family
Cheng met Li at Peking University. The couple have one daughter, who graduated from Peking University and is studying in the United States.
