Chinese literary icon, Yang Jiang passes on

Chinese literary figure Yang Jiang, wife of Qian Zhongshu, has died at 105 in Beijing, reports China Xinhua News. 

She was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She wrote several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Don Quixote from the Spanish original.

After graduating from Soochow University in 1932, Yang Jiang enrolled in the graduate school of Tsinghua University where she met her husband Qian Zhongshu. 

During 1935–1938, they went to Oxford and University of London for further study. At that time, they had their daughter Qian Yuan (錢瑗). They returned to China in 1938. Both Yang and Qian went to academics and made important contributions to the development of Chinese culture.

On 25 May 2016, Yang died at the age of 104 at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing