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Yang Jiang

1911 - 2016

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Yang Jiang (Chinese: 杨绛; Wade–Giles: Yang Chiang; 17 July 1911 – 25 May 2016) was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yang Jiang has received more than 922,123 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Yang Jiang is the 3,000th most popular writer (down from 2,968th in 2019), the 682nd most popular biography from China (down from 633rd in 2019) and the 71st most popular Chinese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 920k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yang Jiang ranks 3,000 out of 5,755. Before her are Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Vincent Voiture, Nick Hornby, Augusto Monterroso, and Lars Norén. After her are Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Felix Timmermans, Charles Blanc, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Willem Frederik Hermans, and Eugène Burnouf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Yang Jiang ranks 140. Before her are Gabriel Almond, Leah Goldberg, Mark Bernes, Allan Pettersson, E. F. Schumacher, and George Seaton. After her are Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Abderrahmane Farès, Nello Pagani, Pierre Harmel, Tilly Fleischer, and Juan Carlos Zabala. Among people deceased in 2016, Yang Jiang ranks 192. Before her are Georges Cottier, Qahhor Mahkamov, William H. McNeill, Alan Thicke, Željko Čajkovski, and Vilmos Zsigmond. After her are Klim Churyumov, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Bernard Fox, Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Antonin Scalia, and Frank Finlay.

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In China

Among people born in China, Yang Jiang ranks 682 out of 1,392. Before her are Sam Hui (1948), Zhong Nanshan (1936), Cai E (1882), Longchenpa (1308), David Chiang (1947), and Li Lisan (1899). After her are Lien Chan (1936), Yuen Ren Chao (1892), Gu Yanwu (1613), Li Bingbing (1973), Qian Zhongshu (1910), and Bai Ling (1966).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Yang Jiang ranks 71. Before her are Tang Xianzu (1550), Sogyal Rinpoche (1947), Yuan Mei (1716), François Cheng (1929), Wang Bo (650), and Longchenpa (1308). After her are Gu Yanwu (1613), Qian Zhongshu (1910), Guan Daosheng (1262), Song Yingxing (1587), Bing Xin (1900), and Sakya Pandita (1182).

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