Biography of Ms. Yang Jiang

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Biographical background of Ms. Yang Jiang: Yang Jiang was born on July 17, 1911, in Beijing. Her original name was Yang Jikang; she was from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. She was a renowned Chinese female writer, literary translator, and scholar of foreign literature, as well as the wife of Qian Zhongshu. Yang Jiang was fluent in English, French, and Spanish. Her translation of Don Quixote is regarded as one of the finest translations ever made; by 2014, over 700,000 copies of it had been published ； The play she wrote in her early years, titled \"As One Desires,\" has been staged on stage for over sixty years, and was still being performed in 2014 ； At the age of 93, Yang Jiang published her essay collection \"The Three of Us,\" which became extremely popular both at home and abroad, with over one million copies printed. At 96, she released a collection of philosophical essays titled \"On the Edge of Life.\" At 102, she published eight volumes of her collected works, totaling 2.5 million words. On May 25, 2016, according to reports from sources such as Li Fang of the People’s Daily and Zhou Nan from the National Development and Reform Commission, the renowned writer and translator Ms. Yang Jiang passed away in the early hours of that day at the age of 105. Biographical notes: Yang Jiang was born in Beijing on July 17, 1911. In 1923, Yang Jiang attended school at Qiming, and her family moved to Suzhou. In 1928, Yang Jiang was determined to apply to the Department of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua University, but there were no places available there, so she had to turn to Soochow Dongwu University instead. In 1932, he went to Tsinghua University to study on a loan basis from Soochow Dongwu University, where he met Qian Zhongshu. In 1935, Yang Jiang married Qian Zhongshu, and that same summer she went to Britain and France to study with her husband. In 1938, Yang Jiang returned to China with Qian Zhongshu and their one-year-old daughter; after returning, she served as a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Zendan Women’s College, as well as a professor in the Spanish Department at Tsinghua University. In 1943 and 1944, Yang Jiang’s plays such as \"As One Desires,\" \"Turning Folly into Truth,\" and \"Playing in the World\" were staged in Shanghai one after another. In 1953, he served as a researcher at the Institute of Literature at Peking University, the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Foreign Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 1956, the work \"Gil Blas\" was thoroughly revised, and its first edition was published by People’s Literature Publishing House. In January 1965, the first part of Don Quixote was translated. In 1978, a Chinese translation of Don Quixote was published. \"Six Accounts of the Re-education Camps,\" published in 1981, has already seen three English versions, two French versions, and one Japanese version. In 1984, her work “Old Wang” was selected as textbook material for junior high schools. In 1985, an English translation of her essay collection The Invisibility Cloak was published. In 1986, she published Reminiscences of My Father, Reminiscences of My Aunt, and Notes on Qian Zhongshu and Fortress Besieged. In February 1992, French translations of *Taking a Bath* and *The Golden Edge of Dark Clouds* were published in Paris. In 1997, Issue 5 of the magazine, titled “Fang Wumei and Her ‘Old Man’”, was published by October. On March 4, 1997, his daughter Qian Yuan passed away from spinal cancer. On December 19, 1998, her husband Qian Zhongshu passed away. In 2001, *From Bingwu to Exile* was published. In 2003, she published the work \"The Three of Us\". In 2007, she published the book \"On the Edge of Life – Questions and Answers for Oneself.\" In 2011, the centenarian Yang Jiang was diagnosed with heart failure, but she remained optimistic and resilient; she continued to read and write every day and went to bed at 1:30 a.m. On July 17, 2013, Yang Jiang celebrated her 102nd birthday. On July 17, 2015, Ms. Yang Jiang celebrated her 104th birthday (or 105th according to her own count of age based on the lunar calendar); she was still in good health, with a clear mind and full of energy. In the early hours of May 25, 2016, Yang Jiang passed away at Peking Union Medical College Hospital at the age of 105.