Yang Jiang

Yang Jiang

Yang Jiang (July 17, 1911 - May 25, 2016), whose real name is Yang Jikang, is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. She is a modern Chinese writer, literary translator, foreign literature researcher and member of the honorary Department of the Chinese Academy of social sciences.

In 1923, he moved to Suzhou with his family and entered Zhenhua women's school. In 1928, he entered Soochow University. In 1932, he graduated from Soochow University. In the same year, he went to Tsinghua University to study and met Qian Zhongshu. From 1935 to 1938, he studied in England and France. In the winter of 1942, he completed his first play "contentment" and released it in Shanghai. In 1944, the comedy "make a real fake" was released in Shanghai. After 1949, he worked in the Institute of literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of foreign literature. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was attacked and slandered as "bourgeois academic authority". In July 1970, it was transferred to the May 7th cadre school. In 1978, the Chinese version of Don Quixote was published. In July 1981, he published a collection of essays, six chapters of cadre school. In May 1987, he published the collection of essays "will drink tea". In December 1988, he published the novel bathing. In July 2003, he published a collection of essays, the three of us. In 2007, he published "walking to the edge of life". In August 2014, the novella after a bath was published. At 1:10 on May 25, 2016, he died in Peking Union Medical College Hospital at the age of 105.

Character experience

He was born in Beijing on July 17, 1911, and his parents were born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. After the revolution of 1911, he moved to Baochang Road, Shanghai. In 1913, the whole family moved to Dashitou Lane in Suzhou. In 1914, the family moved to BaoTi tower in Hangzhou. In 1915, he took a kindergarten class in Beiman kindergarten. Later, he moved to dongxie street of Xicheng and went to preschool in the first Mongolian nursing home of Xidan pailou. In 1919, he went to dawangmiao primary school.

In 1920, she went to Shanghai Qiming school with her elder sister and third sister. In 1923, she was admitted to Zhenhua women's middle school in Suzhou. In 1928, he failed to apply for the Foreign Language Department of Tsinghua University and switched to Soochow University. In 1932, he graduated from Soochow University and became a graduate student of foreign languages in Tsinghua University.

In 1933, he went to the Research Institute of Tsinghua University to study. In 1934, he won the Tsinghua excellent student award; in the same year, he published the short story Lulu, don't worry! 》。 In 1935, he married Qian Zhongshu in the family hall of Miaotang Lane in Suzhou. In the summer of the same year, he went to Oxford University in England with Qian Zhongshu, and then transferred to Paris University in France for further study.

In 1936, he went to Switzerland with Qian Zhongshu to attend the first World Youth Congress. In 1938, Qian Zhongshu returned home with his one-year-old daughter. After returning home, he served as professor of Foreign Languages Department of Shanghai Sinian women's College of Arts and Sciences and professor of Western Languages Department of Tsinghua University. In the autumn of 1939, he was the principal of Suzhou Zhenhua girls' school (Shanghai school) and a senior English teacher. In 1941, after the Pearl Harbor incident, Zhenhua girls' school (Shanghai school) was closed.

In 1942, he worked as a substitute teacher in Banri Primary School of the Ministry of industry, writing scripts in his spare time. From 1943 to 1945, the dramas such as "contentment", "making a fake come true", "playing in the world" and "wind catkins" were performed in Shanghai one after another. In the autumn of 1946, he was a professor in the Department of foreign languages at the Sinian women's College of Arts and Sciences. In September 1948, he published his translation of English prose works since 1939.

After the victory of the liberation war in 1949, he was appointed to Tsinghua University as a professor, teaching English novels of grade three. In April 1950, he published the English translation of the Spanish masterpiece "little leprosy". In 1952, after the end of the three anti five anti movement, he was transferred to the foreign language group of the Institute of literature; on October 16 of the same year, his family moved to No. 26, Zhongguanyuan, a new dormitory of the new Peking University.

In 1956, the first edition of Jill Blass was published after a major overhaul. In 1957, the research paper on H. Fielding's theory and practice of fiction was published in the second issue of literary review. In 1958, during the "white flag pulling" movement, "on fielding" became one of the four "white flags" and was wrongly criticized; in October, it was transferred to Taihe village for transformation; at the end of December, it returned to Beijing and began to study Spanish by itself.

In 1959, he published a paper on W.M. Thackeray, on vanity fair, which was criticized for its lack of "red line". In 1960, he was a representative of the National People's Congress of the people's Republic of China. On August 14, 1962, he moved to the dormitory of the Institute of Liberal Arts in Ganmian Hutong. In the middle of January 1965, the first translation of Don Quixote was completed.

During the "Cultural Revolution", he was attacked and slandered as "bourgeois academic authority". On August 9, 1966, he was "pulled out" and swept the toilet in the foreign language office. On August 27, 1966, he handed over all the translated versions of Don Quixote and shaved his "Yin Yang head" in the dormitory at night. On April 24, 1967, he was exempted from labor by foreign language. On June 1, 1970, the translation of Don Quixote was returned by Zhang lisuo, the former group leader; on July 12, 1970, it was transferred to the May 7th cadre school. On April 4, 1971, he moved to Minggang "division headquarters" with the cadre school.

In 1972, he began to translate Don Quixote again. In 1973, he returned to Beijing, and on December 23 of the same year, he moved to the little red mansion of Beijing Normal University, and his translation of Don Quixote was suspended. In 1974, he moved to an office at the west end of No.7 building, and continued to translate Don Quixote. On April 5, 1975, the first draft of Don Quixote was translated.

In 1977, he finished the novel big joke. At the end of April, 1978, the first and second translations of Don Quixote were published; from September 8 to 18, she was a woman representative of the fourth national women's Congress; on November 9, she finished the novel jade man. From June 5 to 28, 1979, he visited France with the delegation, and in October of the same year, Chunni Ji was published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.

In May 1980, he published his paper "facts - stories - truth"; in July of the same year, the manuscript of the collection of short stories "inverted photos" was brought to Hong Kong by Li Guoqiang and published by Liu Yixiang. At the beginning of 1981, the collection of inverted pictures was published in Hong Kong; in May, the collection of essays six chapters of cadre school was published in Hong Kong. In 1983, two kinds of comedy was published by Fujian people's publishing house. From November 2 to December 5 of the same year, he visited Madrid, Spain and London, England with the delegation.

In 1986, he was awarded the "Cross Medal of Alfonso the king of wisdom X"; in November, he published "about novels"; in the same year, his works "memories of my father", "memories of my aunt", "notes of Qian Zhongshu and besieged city" were published; the Chronicle of Bingwu and Dingwei was published in the sixth issue of harvest; the experience of failure was published in the fifth issue of Chinese translation.

In 1987, the collection of essays will drink tea was published by Sanlian bookstore. In November 1988, the novel bath was published in Hong Kong; in December of the same year, the novel bath was published in Beijing. In 1989, Don Quixote was published in traditional Chinese in Taiwan. In 1990, Jiang Yin Cha was published in Taiwan. In 1991, he wrote "going to the countryside for the first time" and "sister Shun's free love".

In February 1994, memoir and miscellaneous writing was published by Sanlian bookstore; in December 1994, Yang Jiang's prose was published by Zhejiang literature and Art Publishing House. In May 1997, she wrote Fang Wumei and her "my old man" and published it in the fifth issue of October magazine; on August 8 of the same year, she wrote "what I have to say" in reply to Zongpu. In September 1998, he wrote the truth about Qian Zhongshu's leaving the Southwest Associated University. On January 17, 18 and 19, 1999, the translation of "mixed with sand" into exile was completed in three parts.

In January 2000, he published "from Bingwu to exile", which records the experiences of Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu during the "Cultural Revolution"; in April, he published the translation "feiduo"; on November 17, he contracted with the commercial press to publish "Qian Zhongshu manuscripts". On September 7, 2001, Tsinghua University set up the "good study" scholarship to help poor students complete their studies. On April 7, 2003, the sixth edition of Yang Jiang's works was published; on June 24, the prose collection we three was published by Sanlian bookstore.

In 2004, Yang Jiang's anthology was published. In 2007, he published the book "walking to the edge of life: self question and self answer". In July 2011, he published "sitting on the edge of life" in the form of answering questions. In August 2014, the novella after a bath was published. At 1:10 on May 25, 2016, he died in Peking Union Medical College Hospital at the age of 105.

Personal life

Marriage and love

In the spring of 1932, Yang Jiang was admitted to Tsinghua University and met Qian Zhongshu. The first time we met, Qian Zhongshu said, "I'm not engaged." "I don't have a boyfriend, either." Yang Jiang replied. Since then, Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu began to fall in love. In 1933, he and Qian Zhongshu held a wedding in a restaurant in Suzhou. In 1935, Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu got married and soon went abroad to study together. No matter in Oxford or Paris, they left their footprints of love and affection.

At 7:38 on December 19, 1998, Qian Zhongshu died of illness at the age of 88.

Family members

Yang Jiang's mother, Tang xuga, was suffering from the Japanese invaders in the countryside on November 17, 1937

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