1. Yang Jiang was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator.
11 Facts About Yang Jiang
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Yang Jiang wrote several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.
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Yang Jiang was born in Beijing as Yang Jikang, and grew up in the Jiangnan region.
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In England, Yang gave birth to their daughter Qian Yuan in 1937.
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Yang Jiang published this work in 1979 in a compendium: Spring Mud.
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Yang Jiang translated into Chinese three major European works of picaresque fiction: Lazarillo de Tormes, Gil Blas and Don Quixote.
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Yang Jiang had completed almost seven out of eight volumes of the translation when Red Guard student militants confiscated the manuscript from her home in Beijing.
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Yang Jiang was awarded the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise for this by King Juan Carlos in October 1986.
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On 25 May 2016, Yang Jiang died at the age of 104 at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing.
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Yang Jiang has written the outline for it, but unfortunately died after five days in 1997.
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Yang Jiang withheld the news of their daughter's death from her husband Qian Zhongshu until his passing in 1998.