Yang Jingyuan (; February 1923 – 8 June 2015) also known by her pen name Yuan Qing (), was a

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translator. Yang is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the English novelists Charlotte Brontë and

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Biography

Yang was born in a wealthy and highly educated family, in

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, in February 1923, with her ancestral home in

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. Her mother Yuan Changying () was a translator, scholar and author who graduated from

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and

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. Her father Yang Duanliu () was an economist who graduated from Hunan Normal College, Hongwen Academy (), Tokyo Zhengze English College (). His brother, Yang Hongyuan (), was a graduate of Wuhan University. Yang started to publish works in 1943. After graduating from the Department of Foreign Language, Wuhan University, she attended the Department of English Language and Literature,

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, earning a

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in 1948. When she returned to China, she taught at the Department of Foreign Language, Wuhan University, and soon she was transferred from Wuhan to Beijing where she was appointed an editor of the People's Literature Publishing House and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Yang died in Beijing, on June 8, 2015, aged 92.

Works

* ''The Complete Works of the Brontë Sisters'' () * ''Letters of Charlotte Brontë'' ( Charlotte Brontë) () * ''The Stories of the Brontë Sisters'' () * ''The Biography of Mark'' () * ''The Biography of Engels'' () * ''The Biography of Mark and Engels'' () * (Joseph Conrad) () * '' Peter Pan'' (

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) () * (Grahame) ()

Awards

Chinese Translation Association The Translators Association of China (TAC) () is a national association for translation studies in China. Founded in the 1980s TAC was part of the academic response to the national Economic Reform in 1978. The incumbent President of TAC's 6th Ex ...

– Competent Translator (2004)

References

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