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Yang Jiang, late writer Qian Zhongshu's wife, expressed disapproval over an auction of a collection of Qian's letters and manuscripts.

Born in 1911, Yang is a renowned writer, translator and researcher of foreign literature. She studied in Britain and France from 1935 to 1938, taught at Tsinghua University and subsequently worked at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her writing includes plays, novels and essay albums as well as her Chinese translation of Don Quixote, of which 700,000 copies were printed.