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Yang Xianyi was born on 10 January, 1915 in Tianjin, Republic of China, is a Chinese literary translator (1915–2009). Discover Yang Xianyi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?
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Translator |
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94 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn |
| Born |
10 January, 1915 |
| Birthday |
10 January |
| Birthplace |
Tianjin, Republic of China |
| Date of death |
23 November, 2009 |
| Died Place |
Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| Nationality |
China
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Yang Xianyi Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Yang Xianyi's Wife?
His wife is Gladys Yang
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Gladys Yang |
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3 |
Yang Xianyi Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Yang Xianyi worth at the age of 94 years old? Yang Xianyi’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from China. We have estimated Yang Xianyi's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Timeline
Yang Xianyi (January 10, 1915 – November 23, 2009) was a Chinese literary translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into English, including Dream of the Red Mansions.
Born into a wealthy banking family in Tianjin, he was sent to Merton College, Oxford to study Classics in 1936.
There he married Gladys Tayler.
Yang and his wife returned to China in 1940, and began their decades long co-operation of introducing Chinese classics to the English-speaking world.
Working for the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing, a government-funded publisher, the husband and wife team produced a number of quality translations.
The works translated include classical Chinese poetry; such classic works as A Dream of the Red Mansions, The Scholars, Liu E's Mr. Decadent: Notes Taken in an Outing (老殘遊記), also known as The Travels of Lao Can, and some of Lu Xun's stories.
Yang was also the first one to render the Odyssey into Chinese (prose) from the ancient Greek original.
He also translated Aristophanes's Ornithes, Virgil's Georgics, La chanson de Roland and Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion into Chinese.
He narrowly escaped being labeled a "rightist" in 1957-58 for his frank speaking.
However, Yang and his wife Gladys were imprisoned for four years as "class enemies" in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution.
They had two daughters and a son, who committed suicide in 1979.
He was also noted for writing doggerel.
His autobiography, White Tiger, was published in 2003.
After Yang Xianyi died in 2009, his youngest sister, translator Yang Yi, compiled and edited a book including poetry translated by her late brother.
In 2022, a new edition was released by Chinese Translation Publishing House, called Brother–Sister Translated Poems (兄妹译诗) or Translated Poems by Yang Xianyi and Yang Yi, featuring more than 100 of their favorite poems.
