Yang Jiang
| Jiang Yang | |
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Yang in 1941
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| Born |
楊季康 Yang Jikang 17 July 1911 .svg){kind=small} Peking, Qing Empire
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| Died | 25 May 2016 (aged 104) Beijing, China
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| Nationality |
 Qing Dynasty Republic of China Republic of China People's Republic of China
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| Alma mater |
Soochow University Tsinghua University University of Oxford University of Paris |
| Spouse(s) | Qian Zhongshu (m. 1935; d. 1998) |
| Children | Qian Yuan (1937–1997) |
| Parent(s) | Yang Yinhang (father, 1878–1945) |
| Relatives | Yang Yinyu (aunt, 1884–1938) |
Yang Jiang (simplified Chinese: 杨绛; traditional Chinese: 楊絳; pinyin: Yáng Jiàng; 17 July 1911 – 25 May 2016), born Yang Jikang (simplified Chinese: 杨季康; traditional Chinese: 楊季康; pinyin: Yáng Jìkāng), was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She wrote several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.
Born in Beijing, she grew up in the south of China. After graduating from Soochow University in 1932, Yang Jiang enrolled in the graduate school of Tsinghua University where she met her husband Qian Zhongshu. During 1935–1938, they went abroad to England for further study at Oxford University. In England, Yang gave birth to their daughter Qian Yuan (錢瑗). They later studied at Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
They returned to China in 1938. Living in Shanghai, she wrote four stage plays: two comedies of manners, Heart's Desire (1943) and Forging the Truth (1944), one farce, Sporting with the World (1947), and the tragedy Windswept Blossoms (1947). After 1949, she taught at the Tsinghua University and made a scholarly study of western literature at Peking University and the Academy of Science. She published this work in 1979 in a compendium: Spring Mud. As authors, literary researchers, and translators, Yang and Qian both made important contributions to the development of Chinese literary culture.
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