Acclaimed Chinese Writer, Yang Jiang, Dies at Age 105

(Beijing) – Renowned writer, translator and playwright, Yang Jikang, better known by her penname Yang Jiang, died May 25 at a hospital in Beijing. She was 105.

Her death was confirmed by her publisher, the People's Literature Publishing House, the Paper, a news website in Shanghai reported.

Yang was an iconic literary figure in China known for her novels, plays, essays and translations. Yang was the first to produce a Chinese translation of the Spanish classic Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Her translations, including that of the French novel Gil Blas, have remained the authoritative versions of these masterpieces among Chinese readers.