Yang Jiang, the Chinese Famous Writer, Literary Translator, Foreign Literature Researcher, the Wife of Mr. Qian Zhongshu, Died at the Age of 105, in the Beijing, China
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Sophy Poetry & International Translation Website, on Wednesday 25 May, 2016, Sophy edited to report and translated by Phoenix News, to the world: Yang Jiang, the Chinese famous writer, literary translator, foreign literature researcher, the wife of Mr. Qian Zhongshu, died at the age of 105, in the Beijing Union Medical College Hospital.
Yang Jiang, her ID name known as Yang Jikang, and her ancestral home, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China was born in Beijing China, on July 17, 1911. She studied in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and other places in her youth. In 1932 she graduated from the Suzhou Soochow University, in Bachelor Arts, and at the same year, she was admitted to the Graduate School of Tsinghua University for Foreign Language and Literature Graduate. In 1935, she married with Qian Zhongshu and at the summer of the same year she went to Britain, and France to study with her husband. She returned to motherland at the autumn of 1938 and she worked as the former professor of Foreign Languages Department of Shanghai Women Aurora Arts and Sciences, and Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University. After 1949, she was transferred as a researcher to the Institute of Foreign Literature of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Mr. Yang Jiang’s first work was the short story “Lulu, Do Not Worry!” which was published in Ta Kung Pao Literary Supplement in early 1934. In the early 1940s, she continuously wrote the comedy “To One’s Liking” and “Self-fulfilling Prophecy,” caused the great repercussions at the time, which two plays were written and staged in Shanghai, after the Anti-Japanese War and the fall of Shanghai. Since the 1980s, it is the creation “New Era” of Yang Jiang, her prose and novel creative achievements have attracted worldwide attention. Her prose masterpiece “Six Chapters in
Intellectual Labor Farm” was published in 1981, as the best seller throughout the 1980s, and has been published as the booklet in complex characters in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and also was translated into many foreign languages and published abroad. Her masterpiece of novel “Bathing” published in 1988, (which means brainwashing, is the earliest literary works which reflects the intellectual’s transformation), has aroused great repercussion among intellectuals, and also has been translated into many foreign languages and published abroad.
As a translator, Mr. Yang Jiang’s literary translation achievements are outstanding. In addition to “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, she translated the Spanish picaresque novel “Lazarillo del Tormes”, And French famous literary work “Alain Rene Le Sage”, and the ancient Greek prose the “Dialogue” of Plato, and the “Dialogue” of “Phaedo”, etc.
As a foreign literature researcher, Mr. Yang Jiang wrote numerous theoretical works to comment Spain and UK literary classics, such as comments, “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, la Celestina) and other articles, as well as comments on British writer Fielding, etc.
In the new century, during compiling the past manuscripts of Qian Zhongshu, Mr.Yang Jiang wrote many other recalling prose, such as “To Miss Chen Hengzhe”, “A Memorable Day”, and “ I Learn in the Enlightened School”; the family Chronicle prose “Three of Us”, published on June in 2003, has deeply moved the audience by its sincere emotion and beautiful and meaningful style of writing and had become the bestseller in 2003. In 2014, in 103-year-old, Yang Jiang’s new book “After the Bathing” was published in August, which is the sequel of her “Bathing” after her 98 years old. Including “After the Bathing”, the number of her articles unpublished were published in the 9 volumes of “Complete Works of Yang Jiang” in August 2014, and the “Complete Works” are more than 270 million words in total.
Chinese to English translated by Sophy Chen in Gaungzhou, China, 19:18 2016-5-25 作者: 李明利 时间: 2016-5-26 23:43 作者: 李明利 时间: 2016-5-26 23:43
好！作者: 苏菲 时间: 2016-6-1 20:46
谢谢鼓励！
