Yang Yi

Yang Jingru (; 12 September 1919 – 27 January 2023), known as Yang Yi , was a Chinese translator of literary works. Her translation of Wuthering Heights, called Huxiao Shanzhuang, was reprinted many times since 1980, A writer of poetry, prose, and children's literature, one of her later projects was a book of poems translated by Yang Yi and her brother, Yang Xianyi, who predeceased her in 2009.

In 2019, Yang Yi received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nanjing Literature and Art Awards. died the year she was born. participated in the Yunnan branch of the Anti-enemy Literature and Art Association; and Ta Kung Pao. She started translating Wuthering Heights in 1953. and as of 2019, was the only Chinese version held in the collection of the Brontë Parsonage Museum. In 1956, she was sent to Karl Marx University in Leipzig, East Germany, where she was a lecturer with the school of Oriental languages for one year. In 1972, Yang Yi was "released" and resumed working at Nanjing Normal University, teaching "general reading" before being transferred to the United Nations document translation group. Called Brother–Sister Translated Poems or Translated Poems by Yang Xianyi and Yang Yi, it features more than 100 of their favorite poems. Zhao was also a translator and literary expert, known for his Chinese translation of The Red and the Black by Stendhal, and was a co-founder of the Chinese Society of Comparative Literature.

An oral autobiography of Yang Yi's life, One Hundred Years, Many People, Many Things, was published in 2022. She died on 27 January 2023, aged 103.

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