Yang Jiang : A good wife ,a good translater

Several days ago, Yang Jiang died. We lost a good translator and a good lecturer. Being wife of Qian Zhongshu, she was always the woman lived behind her husband, even she is very talented herself. Now let me introduce you about this genius woman.

After graduating from Soochow University in 1932, Yang Jiang enrolled in the graduate school of Tsinghua University where she met her husband Qian Zhongshu. During 1935~1938, they went to Oxford and University of London for further study. At that time, they had their daughter Qian Yuan. They returned to China in 1938. Both Yang and Qian went to academics and made important contribuions to the development of Chinese culture.

She wrote Soon to Have Tea , which was published in 1983, and in 1988, she published her only novel Baptism , which was always connected with Fortress Besieged , a masterpiece of her husband.

Widow of the scholar-novelist Qian Zhongshu, she has written a memoir called We Three , recalling her husband and her daughter Qian Yuan (1937–1997)who is very talented in English literature and taught in BNU when she's alive.

At the age of 96, she surprised the world with her latest work Reaching the Brink of Life .

After Qian's death, she seldom went out and meeting other people, she said:" From now on, we three will never miss each other until death." Now maybe these three kind people are having a more happy life than past in heaven.