Background
Her father was a missionary to China and, from childhood, she became a lover of Chinese culture.
戴乃迭
Her father was a missionary to China and, from childhood, she became a lover of Chinese culture.
University of Oxford.
Born Gladys Margaret Tayler in Beijing, she returned to England as a child and became Oxford"s first graduate in Chinese in 1940. She met Yang at Oxford. The couple were imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution.
Later in life, they spoke out against the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Their biography has been officially banned in China as a result. Gladys Yang died in Beijing in 1999, aged 80.
Their son became mentally ill and never recovered.