Yang Jiang, a Chinese writer and translator of Don Quixote, has died. She was 104.
Jiang worked as a novelist, essayist and translator. She and her husband, also a writer were banished to a remote village during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and lived to write about. The Washington Post has the scoop:
Ms. Yang’s poignant 1981 memoir, “A Cadre School Life: Six Chapters,” described the life she and her husband led during their years of internal exile.
Her 1988 novel, “Baptism,” described how Chinese intellectuals adjusted to the changing world brought by Mao Zedong’s communist revolution of the 1940s.