Native name 杨静远 Nationality Chinese Pen name Yuan Qing (苑青) Name Yang Jingyuan | Occupation Translator Role Translator Language Chinese, English | |
Alma mater Wuhan University
University of Michigan Education University of Michigan, Wuhan University | ||
Yang Jingyuan (simplified Chinese: 杨静远; traditional Chinese: 楊靜遠; pinyin: Yáng Jìngyuǎn; born February 1923) also known by her pen name Yuan Qing (Chinese: 苑青; pinyin: Yuàn Qīng). Yang is a Chinese translator.
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Yang is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the English novelists Charlotte Bronte and Emily Brontë.
Biography
Yang was born in a wealthy and highly educated family, in Changsha, Hunan, in February 1923, with her ancestral home in Suzhou, Jiangsu, the daughter of Yuan Changying (袁昌英), a translator, scholar and author who was graduated from University of Edinburgh and University of Paris, and Yang Duanliu (杨端六), a economist who was graduated from Hunan Normal College, Hongwen Academy (宏文学院), Tokyo Zhengze English College (东京正则英语学校). His brother, Yang Hongyuan (杨弘远), 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, University of Michigan, earning a Master of Arts 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.