October 18, 2014. He was 98. Legacy On December 26, 2014, it was announced that the China International Publishing Group was establishing a Sidney Shapiro Research Center to investigate and establish criteria for translation between Chinese and English. Works Selected translations from Chinese to English Ba Jin, The Family, Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 1958 Shi Nai'an, Outlaws of the Marsh, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980 Ba Jin, Selected Works, Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 1988 Mao Dun, The Shop of the Lin Family and Spring Silkworms, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2004. Deng Rong, Deng Xiaoping and the Cultural Revolution: A Daughter Recalls the Critical Years, New York: C. Bertelsmann, 2005 Works compiled and edited Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1984; paperback edition: Hippocrene Books, 1988 Memoirs An American in China: Thirty Years in the People's Republic. New American Library 1979. I Chose China: The Metamorphosis of a Country and a Man, Hippocrene Books 1997. See also History of the Jews in China Israel Epstein Kaifeng Jews Rewi Alley Sidney Rittenberg References External links gluckman.com Profile of Shapiro from The National, 15 August 2008 1915 births 2014 deaths Male actors from New York City American emigrants to China Chinese–English translators Chinese Jews Chinese male film actors Chinese non-fiction writers Chinese people of American-Jewish descent Jewish American attorneys Jewish American male actors Jewish American writers Lawyers from New York City Naturalized citizens of the People's Republic of China St. John's University (New York City) alumni Writers from Brooklyn American magazine founders 21st-century American Jews