Over a career spanning seven decades, he translated more than 60 works from French to Chinese.
[1] He graduated from Department of French Literature of the Sino-French University, which was exiled in Kunming during the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1946.
[1][2] From 1947 to 1953 Hao worked for the Red Cross Society of China in Nanjing, Shanghai, and Beijing.
[1][2] Over a career that lasted 70 years, he translated more than 60 French works, including The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, The Black Tulip, Letters from My Windmill, and Selected Novels of Daudet.
[1][2] Hao died on 10 June 2019 at Renji Hospital in Shanghai, at the age of 94.