Yang Bi


Yang Bi was a Chinese translator and associate professor at Fudan University.

Biography

Yang was born in May 1922 in Shanghai, while her ancestral home in Wuxi, Jiangsu. Her father Yang Yinhang was a jurist who graduated from Waseda University and the University of Pennsylvania. Her mother Tang Xu'an was a housewife. Her sister Yang Jiang was a writer and translator. She was raised in Suzhou. She studied and then taught at Aurora Women's College of Arts and Sciences. In 1952, Aurora Women's College of Arts and Sciences was merged into Fudan University, she was promoted to associate professor. In 1968, she was asked to account for the International Labour Office in the "Cleaning up the Class Movement". She died during that movement at the age of 46.

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