Gladys Yang

Gladys Yang (born Gladys Tayler, at Beijing, January 19 1919 - died Beijing, November 18 1999) was a British translator of Chinese literature, the wife of another noted translator Yang Xianyi. Her father was a missionary to China, and she herself became a lover of Chinese culture since her childhood. Her Chinese name was 戴乃迭.

She returned to England when she was still a child, and became Oxford's first graduate in Chinese in 1940. She met Yang at Oxford. After their marriage, the Beijing-based couple became prominent translators of Chinese literature into British English during the latter half of the twentieth century at the Foreign Languages Press.

She had two daughters, and a son (who committed suicide in 1979).

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* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991201/ai_n14271152 Obituary: Gladys Yang]