12 Facts About Chiang Yee

Chiang Yee, self-styled as "The Silent Traveller", was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher.

Chiang Yee married Tseng Yun in 1924, with whom he was to have four children.

Chiang Yee served for over a year in the Chinese army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, then taught chemistry in middle schools, lectured at National Chengchi University, and worked as assistant editor of a Hangzhou newspaper.

Chiang Yee subsequently served as magistrate of three counties.

From 1935 to 1938 Chiang taught Chinese at the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, and 1938 to 1940 worked at the Wellcome Museum of Anatomy and Pathology.

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Chiang Yee wrote The Silent Traveller in Wartime, and, after World War II ended, the series gradually ventured further afield, to Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, New York, San Francisco, and Boston, concluding in 1972 with Japan.

Chiang Yee lived for a time with fellow expatriates Hsiung Shih-I, author of a West End hit, and Dymia Hsiung, the first Chinese woman to write a fictionalised autobiography in English.

Chiang Yee became a lecturer at Columbia University from 1955 to 1957, with an interlude in 1958 and 1959 during which he was Emerson Fellow in Poetry at Harvard University.

Chiang Yee illustrated all his books, including several for children, and he wrote a standard work on Chinese calligraphy.

Chiang Yee died in his seventies in China after spending over forty years away from his homeland, on a day variously recorded as 7 or 26 October 1977.

Chiang Yee's tomb is on the slopes of Mount Lu nearby his home town Jiujiang.

Chiang Yee is thought to be only the third Chinese person to receive a blue plaque, i e a memorial created by English Heritage.