Well-known Chinese writer, literary translator and foreign literature researcher Yang Jiang died atthe age of 105 in Beijing on Wednesday morning.

Yang, the wife of late Chinese novelist Qian Zhongshu, enjoyed decades of fame across thecountry for her literature works such as Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder' (1981), Baptism(1988), and We Three (2004), which recalls her husband and her daughter Qian Yuan (1937–1997), who died of cancer one year before her father's death. Her translation of the Spanishnovel Don Quixote de la Mancha is widely considered the best Chinese version.

Yang Jiang, whose original name was Yang Jikang, married Qian Zhongshu, one of the topChinese litterateurs, in 1935.

Yang Jiang in her childhood

Yang Jiang at Library

Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu