Yang Xianyi
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| Gender | Male |
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| Date of birth | January 10,1915 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | Tianjin |
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| Died | Beijing |
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| Current partner | Gladys Yang |
| Parents | Yang Yuzhang |
| Education | Merton College |
| Books | White Tiger: An Autobiography of Yang Xianyi |
| Grandparents | Yang Shixie |
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| ID | 3410539 |
Yang Xianyi Life story
Yang Xianyi was a Chinese literary translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into English, including Dream of the Red Chamber. 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.
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