Yang Jiang, the acclaimed writer who died at the age of 104 on Wednesday, an age that stands for longevity in Chinese culture, left a legacy with her novels, prose, essays and translations.
Throughout her life, she penned 18 prose works, 9 novels, 3 plays, 3 essay collections and 4 Chinese translations of classic novels.
Her Three of Us (Wo Men Sa) is an affectionate memory of her beloved husband Qian Zhongshu and daughter Qian Yuan from the perspective of a wife and mother. As the only surviving member of the three, Yang started the first two chapters with a dream. Yang finished the book when she was 92. As she said, the book is "her own memory of the three of them".
Baptism is one of Yang Jiang's best -known novels. The book describes the ideological remolding of a group of intellectuals after liberation. Her clean, simple yet lively words lightly pictured a diverse group of intellectuals and their experiences.
