November 23rd, 2009
Yang Xianyi died in Beijing Monday at the age of 94. Yang was born in Tianjin in 1915 and studied English at Oxford where he met his future wife, the author Gladys Taylor. Besides translating Chinese classics such as The Dream of the Red Mansions, The Scholars, and the Selected Works of 20th century writer Lu Xun into English, Yang also translated Western works into Chinese including Homer’s Odyssey, Aristophanes’s The Birds and Peace and Virgil’s Ecologues.
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