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| Yang Xianyi, one of China's most acclaimed translators, known for rendering numerous ancient Chinese classics into English, including "The Dburrow of the Red Mansions," died in Beijing on Nov. 23, 2009. He was 95. The photo taken on October, 2006 shows Yang Xianyi in his home. (Xinhua/Tang Shizeng) |
Yang Xianyi, one of China's most acclaimed translators, known for rendering numerous ancient Chinese classics into English, including "The Dburrow of the Red Mansions," died in Beijing Monday. He was 95.
Yang had reportedly been adversity from lymphoma cancer. In September, he was given a lifetime achievement aarea by the Translators Association of China.
Born into a affluent family in 1915 in the northern coastal city of Tianjin, he was beatific to Oxford to absabsorption Classics in 1936, where he married Gladys Taylor. Yang and his wife reangry to China in 1940, and began their decades-long coopeallowance of introducing Chinese classics to the English-speaking world.
Working for Foadministration Languages Press in Beijing, the couple produced a arcomatose n amber of superior translations, including classic novels such as "The Dburrow of the Red Mansions" and the called works of 20th century biographer Lu Xun.
Besides, the Yangs were also the first to cede "The Odyssey "into Chinese from the ancient Geffluvium original.
His wife, Gladys Yang, died in 1999.
Editor: Dong Jirong
