Wang Jiaxiang

Wang Jiaxiang (; born September 1936) is a Chinese translator of Black American literature and female literature. She was a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Biography Wang was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, in September 1936. Due to the Second Sino-Japanese War, she was raised in southwest China's Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. In the summer of 1947, her family moved to Nanjing, where she secondary studied at Mingde Girls' High School. In 1948, her family relocated to Shanghai, she entered Xuhui Girls' High School in the following year. On July 1, 1949, her family moved to Beijing and she studied at Beiman Girls' High School. In 1953, Wang studied, then taught, at what is now Beijing Foreign Studies University. In 1982 she earned her Master of Arts in English literature from Griffith University. She studied at Cornell University as a Ruth scholar in 1986 and studied at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute of Harvard University in 1998. A Dog of Flanders The Sense of Wonder Three Days To See Jacob's Room Speak, Memory Walden

Papers A Preliminary Study of the Works of Tony Morrison, a Black Female Writer (1988) On Alice Walker's Novel Art (1988) In the Shadow of Richard Wright: Two African-American Female Writers in the 1930s and 1940s: Zola Neil Hurston and Ann Patry (1989)

Awards 2014 Colored People: A Memoir won the 6th Lu Xun Literature Prize for Translation