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THIS WEEK> THIS WEEK NO. 31, 2014> PEOPLE & POINTS
UPDATED: July 28, 2014 NO. 31 JULY 31, 2014
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Yang Jiang, one of the most renowned female writers and translators in China, celebrated her 103rd birthday on July 17. Her new nine-volume collection is scheduled to be published in August.

Yang was born in Beijing in 1911. She was admitted to the Foreign Language School at Tsinghua University in 1933 for graduate studies. Two years later, she studied abroad with her late husband Qian Zhongshu (1910-98), who went to become one of the most respected literary scholars and writers of his time. The couple studied at Oxford and then the University of Paris.

After returning to China, Yang devoted her time to literature studies and writing. She was the first person to translate Don Quixote from its original Spanish into Chinese, and her edition is still the most widely circulated in China. Yang is also famous for her novel Baptism and the memoir We Three.



 
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