Remembering Yang Jiang - Chinadaily.com.cn



Outpouring of tributes at Yang Jiang's death WeChat and Weibo were flooded with tributes to the celebrated Chinese writer Yang Jiang. Many people expressed their condolences about the death of Yang by posting Yang's photos and quotations on the Internet.


A family besieged now beloved	Tsinghua remembers famed alumna	Celebrated Chinese writer dies
Two individuals, each with a strong spirit but vulnerable heart, encountered each other. In their 60 years together the small family of three members went through war, political turmoil and illness in their repeated returns, but all the while they were always there for each other.	Students lit up candles in memory of celebrated writer Yang Jiang in front of the old library at Tsinghua University. Yang graduated from Tsinghua, which also witnessed the blossoming of her romance with her husband Qian Zhongshu.	Yang enjoyed decades of fame across the country for her literature works such as Baptism, Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder' and We Three, which recalls her husband and her daughter Qian Yuan (1937–1997), who died of cancer one year before her father's death.

Author's widow claims victory	Yang protests auction of letters	At the margins of life
The widow of the well-known Chinese author Qian Zhongshu registered a "temporary victory" on Monday in her fight to prevent Qian's private letters from being sold at auction.	Letters and manuscripts of the couple will go under the hammer, despite Qian's 102-year-old widow, saying it is "very inappropriate" to publicize the family's privacy.	The 100th birthday of Yang Jiang was a low-key affair for the celebrated writer and translator, in which Yang spent in self-effacing modesty.

Editor: Gu Xin