Yang Jiang was a well-known Chinese playwright, translator, and author. She belonged to unique and beautiful existence in Chinese literature. She was the first Chinese academic (translate) Miguel de Cervantes' Spanish novel Don Quixoteto Chinese and at that time, her translation (honor) as the recreation of the original work the basis of loyalty.
Yang was born into a rich family in 1911, (original)named Yang Jikang. After eventually (graduate) from Soochow University, she enrolled at the graduate school of Tsinghua University. She met her husband there, Qian Zhongshu, another acclaimed writer in China.
Other than translations, Yang (author) many plays, novels, and essays during her writing career. Her short novel Mr. Wang, (write) in 1984, was selected as an article in the textbook. In 1986, she got the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise, a famous Spanish civil order, for her (achieve) in Don Quixote. Her bestseller was We Threein 2003, sales exceeded 180,000 copies in two months. Yang passed away in 2016, at the age of 105.
