Chiang Yee

Chiang Yee (; 19 May 1903 – 26 October 1977), self-styled as "The Silent Traveller" (哑行者), was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher. The success of The Silent Traveller: A Chinese Artist in Lakeland was followed by a series of books in the same vein, all of which he illustrated himself. He was a nominee for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. Chiang Yee came up with the famous Chinese translation for Coca-Cola (可口可乐, pinyin: "Ke Kou Ke Le", meaning "palatable and pleasurable") in 1935. He submitted the winning entry while living in England after answering a corporate naming competition held by The Coca-Cola Company.

1903–1933: China Chiang Yee was born in Jiujiang, China, on a day variously recorded as 19 May or 14 June. His father was a painter.

1933–1955: England From 1935 to 1938 Chiang taught Chinese at the School of Oriental Studies (now School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, and 1938 to 1940 worked at the Wellcome Museum of Anatomy and Pathology. and Dymia Hsiung, the first Chinese woman to write a fictionalised autobiography in English.

After publication of the Silent Traveller books, Chiang became friends with a number of British intellectuals and people involved in the arts. He is thought to be only the third Chinese person to receive a blue plaque, i.e. a memorial created by English Heritage. (Writer Lao She has a blue plaque in Notting Hill and Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the Republic of China, is commemorated in the village of Cottered in Hertfordshire.)