Yang Jiang, born 1911 as Yang Jikang, is a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She has written several successful comedies, and is the first person to produce a complete Chinese version of "Don Quixote" from the Spanish original.

Widow of the scholar-novelist Qian Zhongshu, she has written a memoir called "We Three," recalling her husband and her daughter Qian Yuan (1937-1997), who died of cancer one year before her father's death.

Another memoir penned by her is "Six Records from the Cadre School," a lyrical and humorous record of the difficult times faced by Yang and her husband when they were sent to work on farms in the late 60s and early 70s during the Cultural Revolution. In connection with "Six Records from the Cadre School," she also wrote "Soon to Have Tea," published in 1983, and, at the age of 96, she surprised the world last year with her latest work "Reaching the Brink of Life," a philosophic work whose title in Chinese clearly alludes to her late husband's collection of essays "Marginalia to Life."

Sharing her husband's sense of humor, Yang has also rendered the picaresque novels "Lazarillo de Tormes" and Alain-Rene Lesage's "Gil Blas" into Chinese.

Don Quixote

唐吉诃德

We Three

我们仨

Six Records from the Cadre School

干校六记

Soon to Have Tea

将饮茶

Reaching the Brink of Life

走到人生边上

Marginalia to Life

写在人生边上

Lazarillo de Tormes

小癞子