Yang Jiang
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Yang Jiang born Yang Jikang (born 17 July 1911), is a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She has written several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Don Quixote from the Spanish
original.
. Later they loved each other and got married. During 1935~1938, they went to Oxford
and Universuty of London for further study. At that time, they got their daughter Qian Yuan (錢瑗). They went back in 1938. Both Yang and Qian went to academics and made important contribuions to the development of Chinese culture.
Yang has also rendered the picaresque novel
s Lazarillo de Tormes
and Alain-René Lesage
's Gil Blas into Chinese. She turned 100
in July 2011.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
original.
Biography
Yang Jiang was graduated from The University Of Suzhou Dongwu in 1932, and then she enrolled in the graduate school of Qinghua University where she met her husband Qian ZhongshuQian Zhongshu
Qian Zhongshu was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his wit and erudition.He is best known for his satiric novel Fortress Besieged . His works of non-fiction are characterised by their large amount of quotations in both Chinese and Western languages...
. Later they loved each other and got married. During 1935~1938, they went to Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
and Universuty of London for further study. At that time, they got their daughter Qian Yuan (錢瑗). They went back in 1938. Both Yang and Qian went to academics and made important contribuions to the development of Chinese culture.
Works
- Widow of the scholar-novelist Qian ZhongshuQian ZhongshuQian Zhongshu was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his wit and erudition.He is best known for his satiric novel Fortress Besieged . His works of non-fiction are characterised by their large amount of quotations in both Chinese and Western languages...
, 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 of cancerCancerCancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
one year before her father's death. - Another memoir penned by her is Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder' (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 the Cultural RevolutionCultural RevolutionThe Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution , was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976...
. In connection with this memoir, she also wrote Soon to Have Tea (將飲茶), which was published in 1983. - In 1988, she pulished her only novel Baptism (洗澡)， which was always connected with Fortress Besieged (围城) , a masterpiece of her husband.
- At the age of 96, she surprised the world with her latest work Reaching the Brink of Life (走到人生邊上), a philosophic work whose title in Chinese clearly alludes to her late husband's collection of essays Marginalia to Life (寫在人生邊上).
Yang has also rendered the picaresque novel
Picaresque novel
The picaresque novel is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society...
s Lazarillo de Tormes
Lazarillo de Tormes
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its heretical content...
and Alain-René Lesage
Alain-René Lesage
Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks , his comedy Turcaret , and his picaresque novel Gil Blas .-Youth and education:Claude Lesage, the father of the novelist, held the united...
's Gil Blas into Chinese. She turned 100
Centenarian
A centenarian is a person who is or lives beyond the age of 100 years. Because current average life expectancies across the world are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. Much rarer, a supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more, something only...
in July 2011.
External links
- Some of her works on-line (Chinese)