In 1998, Mr. Qian’s death deeply saddened the cultural community. Four years after his life partner passed away, the 92-year-old Mr. Yang carefully recorded the ups and downs of their special family for 63 years, and compiled the memoir "The Three of Us". At the age of 96, he published a collection of philosophical essays "Coming to the Edge of Life". At the age of 102, he published eight volumes of "Collected Works of Yang Jiang" with 2.5 million words.
In the spring of 1932, Yang Jiang was admitted to Tsinghua University and met Qian Zhongshu. When they met for the first time, Qian Zhongshu said: "I'm not engaged." "I don't have a boyfriend either." Yang Jiang replied. This is how the good relationship of the century begins. In 1935, Yang Jiang married Qian Zhongshu, and soon they went abroad to study together. Whether in Oxford or Paris, they left the traces of their love for each other.
In Oxford, Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu once recalled in their poems the first time he saw Yang Jiang: "Jie's eyes and face are radiant, and the new petals of the rose are soaked in wine. I don't know how shy I was when I was a child. "Mian, once took Honghua and Xuewu"
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Yang Jiang (July 17, 1911 - May 25, 2016), whose real name was Yang Jikang, was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. Mrs. Qian Zhongshu, Chinese female writer, literary translator and foreign literature researcher.
Yang Jiang is fluent in English, French, and Spanish. Her translation of "Don Quixote" is recognized as the best translation work. By 2014, more than 700,000 copies have been published; she created in her early years Yang Jiang's play "The Three of Us" has been on the stage for more than 60 years and was still performed in 2014;
At the age of 93, Yang Jiang published the prose essay "The Three of Us", which became popular at home and abroad and was reprinted for a year. With more than one million copies, he published a collection of philosophical essays "Coming to the Edge of Life" at the age of 96, and published eight volumes of "Collected Works of Yang Jiang" with 2.5 million words at the age of 102. Yang Jiang passed away on May 25, 2016, at the age of 105.