- Yang Jiang
Yang Jiang (Chinese: 楊絳), born 1911 as Yang Jikang (杨季康), is a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She has written several successful comedies, and is the first person to produce a complete Chinese version of "
Don Quixote " from the Spanish original.Widow of the scholar-novelist
Qian Zhongshu , she has written a memoir called "We Three" (我們仨), recalling her husband and her daughter Qian Yuan (錢瑗) (1937-1997), who died ofcancer one year before her father's death. Another memoir penned by her is "Six Records from the Cadre School" (干校六记), a lyrical and humorous record of the difficult times faced by Yang and her husband when they were sent to work on farms in the late 60s and early 70s during theCultural Revolution . In connection with "Six Records from the Cadre School" (干校六记), she also wrote 將飲茶 (Soon to Have Tea)published in 1983, and, at the age of 96, she surprised the world last year with her latest work 走到人生邊上 (Reaching the Brink of Life), a philosophic work whose title in Chinese clearly alludes to her late husband's collection of essays 寫在人生邊上 (Marginalia to Life). she is one of the most famous chinese writer and she is now 97.Sharing her husband's sense of humor, Yang has also rendered the
picaresque novel s "Lazarillo de Tormes " andAlain-René Lesage 's "Gil Blas" into Chinese.Her sister Yang Bi (楊必) (1922 - 1968) was also a noted translator, largely remembered today for her version of Thackeray's "
Vanity Fair ".External links
* [http://www.millionbook.net/xd/y/yangjiang/ Some of her works on-line] (Chinese)
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