The Book of Songs

by Gladys Yang (Translator)

The Book of Songs is China's earliest anthology of poetry. Its simple and natural style of writing reflects the life and struggle, labour and love, and joys and sorrows of the people who lived in ancient times.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Gladys Yang (Chinese: 戴乃迭; pinyin: Dài Nǎidié; 19 January 1919 – 18 November 1999) was a British translator of Chinese literature and the wife of another noted literary translator, Yang Xianyi. Her father was a missionary to China and, from childhood, she became intrigued by Chinese culture.

Born Gladys Margaret Tayler in Beijing, she returned to England as a child and became Oxford University's first graduate in Chinese language in 1940. She met Yang at Oxford. After their marriage, the Beijing-based couple became prominent translators of Chinese literature into English during the latter half of the twentieth century at the Foreign Languages Press.
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