YANG JIANG Author 17-7-1911 – 25-5-2016 Yang Jiang, a Chinese author, playwright and translator whose stoic memoir of the Cultural Revolution remains one of the most revered works about that period, has died in Beijing aged 104. Advertisement Her death was announced by state-run news media, including People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, a sign of the esteem in which she was held. She and her husband, Qian Zhongshu, the author of the novel Fortress Besieged, were already acclaimed writers when Mao Zedong inaugurated the Cultural Revolution in 1966. At the time, Yang was working on a translation of Don Quixote, a formidable undertaking for...
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