Yang Gang (journalist)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.
Yang Gang in 1945

Yang Gang (Chinese: 杨刚; pinyin: Yáng Gāng; 1905 – 7 October 1957), also known as Yang Bin (杨缤), was a Chinese journalist, novelist, and translator. She gained prominence reporting for the influential newspaper Ta Kung Pao during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and was considered one of the top four female journalists in China.[1] After the Chinese Communist Revolution, she served as Premier Zhou Enlai's secretary and later Deputy Chief Editor of the People's Daily.[2] She committed suicide in October 1957, after being forced to persecute her colleagues during the Anti-Rightist Campaign, although the exact reason for her suicide remains undetermined.[3][4]

  1. ^ "中国杰出的女记者杨刚" [Yang Gang, China's outstanding female journalist]. CNKI. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  2. ^ Popkin, Jeremy D. (13 January 2015). Media And Revolution. University Press of Kentucky. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-8131-5650-7 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Pei, Yiran (17 January 2014). 红色才女杨刚：1957年自杀 被视为叛党 [Red talented girl Yang Gang: committed suicide in 1957 and was regarded as a traitor] (in Chinese). Sohu. Archived from the original on 6 March 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  4. ^ Dooling, Amy D. (19 February 2005). Women's Literary Feminism in Twentieth Century China. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 243. ISBN 9781403967336 – via Google Books.