Find authors like Eileen Chang from the world’s largest community of readers. She returned to Shanghai in 1941 during the Japanese occupation, where she established her reputation as a writer, before moving to the United States in 1955. Last year I read the short story collection Lust, Caution and Other Stories by Eileen Chang. Description from Goodreads In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high-society ladies.
The Golden Cangue (金鎖記) is a 1943 Chinese novella by Eileen Chang.The author's own English translation appeared in the anthology Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas: 1919–1949 (1981) published by Columbia University Press. Fu Lei was an enthusiastic critic of the story, while C. T. Hsia considered it "the greatest novelette in the history of Chinese literature". Eileen Chang (1920-1995) was born into an aristocratic family in Shanghai. At the heart of Chang’s achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life.” So the translator translated it into Shanghai dialect which can depict their lives vividly. I haven't published my review until now as I wanted to focus on Asian author this month. Eileen Chang (1920-1995) was born in Shanghai and studied literature at the University of Hong Kong. She studied English at University College London and worked as an illustrated books editor and copywriter before writing fiction. Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Candlish was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and grew up in the Midlands town of Northampton. Its author Eileen Chang lived in Shanghai where she spent her childhood. Chang studied literature at the University of Hong Kong, but the Japanese attack on the city in 1941 forced her to return to occupied Shanghai, where she was able to publish the stories and essays (collected in two volumes, Romances, 1944, and Written on Water, 1945) that soon made her a literary star. Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (1943): “Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. Before its publication, the executor of Eileen Chang's estate, Roland Soong , decided to show people The …