Yang Jiang
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang.
Yang Jiang (Chinese: 楊絳), born 1911 as Yang Jikang (杨季康), is a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She has written several successful comedies, and is the first person to produce a complete Chinese version of Don Quixote from the Spanish original.
Widow of the scholar-novelist Qian Zhongshu, 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 cancer one year before her father's death. Another memoir penned by her is Six Records from the Cadre School (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 Revolution.
Sharing her husband's sense of humor, Yang has also rendered the picaresque novels Lazarillo de Tormes and Alain-René Lesage's Gil Blas into Chinese.
Her sister Yang Bi (楊必) (1922 - 1968) was also a noted translator, largely remembered today for her version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
