Yang Jiang: Verskil tussen weergawes

Yang het ook drie hoof Europese werke van pikaresiese fiksie na Chinese vertaal: ''[[Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' (1951), ''[[Gil Blas]]'' (1956) en ''[[Don Quixote]]'' (1978).<ref name=rea>{{cite journal|last1=Rea|first1=Christopher|title=Yang Jiang's 楊絳 Conspicuous Inconspicuousness A Centenary Writer in China's 'Prosperous Age'|journal=China Heritage Quarterly|date=June 2011|issue=26|url=http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/features.php?searchterm=026_yangjiang.inc&issue=026}}</ref> Haar Chinese vertaling van ''Don Quixote'' word vanaf 2016 steeds beskou as die definitiewe weergawe.<ref name="WPost"/> Nadat sy verskeie Engelse en Franse vertalings as ongeskik beskou het, het sy haarself Spaans geleer. “If I wanted to be faithful to the original, I had to translate directly from the original,” het sy in 2002 geskryf. Yang het amper sewe van die agt volumes van die vertaling voltooi toe die Red Guard-studente-militantes die manuskrip gekonfiskeer het van haar huis in Beijing. “I worked with every ounce of energy I could muster, gouging at the earth with a spade, but the only result was a solitary scratch on the surface,” het Yang geskryf. “The youngsters around me had quite a laugh over that.” Soos die Kulturele Rewolusie bedaar het, het Yang teruggekeer na Beijing om te werk aan “Don Quixote.” Die byna voltooide opstel wat deur die Red Guards gekonfiskeer is, was klaarblyklik ontdek tussen 'n hoop skrap papier en dit is teruggegee aan Me. Yang. Dit is in 1978 gepubliseer en dit word wyd beskou as die definitiewe vertaling van “Don Quixote” in China.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/books/yang-jiang-chinese-author-and-translator-dies-at-104.html |title=Yang Jiang Dies at 104; Revered Writer Witnessed China’s Cultural Revolution |last=Qin |first=Amy |date=26 Mei 2016 |work=The New York Times |access-date=18 April 2017 |issn=0362-4331 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200107101144/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/books/yang-jiang-chinese-author-and-translator-dies-at-104.html |archive-date=7 Januarie 2020 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Haar ondervinding deur "hervorming deur arbeid" in 'n "[[cadre school]]" in Henan vanaf 1969 tot 1972 te , waar sy [[Down to the Countryside Movement|"gestuur is"]] met haar man tydens die [[Kulturele Rewolusie ]], het haar geïnspireer om ''Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder''' (1981) te skryf.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lévy|first1=André|title=Dictionnaire de littérature chinoise|date=2000|publisher=[[Presses Universitaires de France]]|location=Paris|isbn=9782130504382|pages=364–365|edition=1st|language=French}}</ref> Dit is hierdie boek waarmee sy naamgemaak het as skrywer in die post-Mao era.<ref name="Ying">Li-hua Ying, ''Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature'', The Scarecrow Press, 2010, p. 234.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/25/books/the-re-education-of-a-stinking-intellectual.html?&pagewanted=all |work=[[The New York Times]] |title=The Re-Education Of A 'Stinking Intellectual' |first=Judith |last=Shapiro |date=25 November 1984 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101165904/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/25/books/the-re-education-of-a-stinking-intellectual.html |archive-date=1 November 2019 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref> In verband met hierdie memoir, het sy ook ''Soon to Have Tea'' geskryf ({{lang|zh-hant|將飲茶}}) (aka ''Toward Oblivion''), wat gepubliseer is in 1983.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Li |first1=Hongrui |title=Yang Jiang: A woman's legacy through words |url=http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-05/26/content_25479808.htm |work=[[China Daily]] |access-date=26 Mei 2016 |date=26 Mei 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914060853/http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-05/26/content_25479808.htm |archive-date=14 September 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>