Yang Jiang

Biography

A modern Chinese writer and literary translator, born Yang Jikang in Beijing with family roots in Wuxi, Jiangsu. She graduated from Soochow University in 1932, pursued graduate study at Tsinghua and travelled to Britain and France in 1935. She spent much of her career at the Institute of Literature and the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where she was made an honorary member of the Academic Division. Her translations include Don Quixote, Lazarillo de Tormes and Gil Blas; her own books include the essay collection Gan Xiao Liu Ji (1981), Jiang Yin Cha and We Three, the novel Baptism, and several volumes of literary criticism. Gan Xiao Liu Ji, published by SDX Joint Publishing in 1981, records small daily episodes in six plainly written essays; in a preface Qian Zhongshu called them small ornaments against a large backdrop, minor interpolations within a larger story.