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Chinese author, painter, illustrator, calligrapher, poet (1903–1977)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chiang (Jiang).

Chiang Yee (simplified Chinese: 蒋彝; traditional Chinese: 蔣彝; pinyin: Jiǎng Yí; Wade–Giles: Chiang I; 19 May 1903 – 26 October 1977), self-styled as "The Silent Traveller" (哑行者), was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher.

The success of The Silent Traveller: A Chinese Artist in Lakeland (1937) was followed by a series of books in the same vein, all of which he illustrated himself. He was a nominee for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.^[1]

1903–1933: China

Chiang Yee was born in Jiujiang, China,^[2] on a day variously recorded as 19 May or 14 June.

His father was a painter.^[2] His mother died when he was five.^[2]

Chiang Yee married Tseng Yun in 1924, with whom he was to have four children.^[2] In 1925 he graduated from Nanjing University (then named Nation