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Eileen Chang
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born
September 30, 1920
died
September 08, 1995
gender
female
place of birth
Shanghai, China
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Eileen Chang (pinyin: Zhang Ailing, traditional Chinese: 張愛玲) was born to a prominent family in Shanghai (one of her great-grandfathers was Li Hongzhang) in 1920.
She went to a prestigious girls' school in Shanghai, where she changed her name from Zhang Ying to Zhang Ailing to match her English name, Eileen. Afterwards, she attended the University of Hong Kong, but had to go back to Shanghai when Hong Kong fell to Japan during WWII. While in Shanghai, she was briefly married to Hu Lancheng, the notorious Japanese collaborator, but later got a divorce.
After WWII ended, she returned to Hong Kong and later immigrated to the United States in 1955. She married a scriptwriter in 1956 and worked as a screenwriter herse...more
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| 58 reviews
| 29 distinct works
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Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics) by Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury avg rating 3.77 — 121 ratings — published 1938 6 editions |
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Lust, Caution: The Story by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.56 — 123 ratings — published 2005 9 editions |
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The Rouge of the North by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.17 — 12 ratings — published 1998 3 editions |
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The Rice Sprout Song by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 1954 4 editions |
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Written On Water (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published 1991 3 editions |
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La storia del giogo d'oro by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2006 |
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Traces of Love and Other Stories by Eileen Chang avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2000 |
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Zhang Ailing wen ji by Eileen Chang avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1992 |
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小團圓 by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2009 |
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Ban sheng yuan (Half a Lifetime, in traditional Chinese, NOT in English) by Eileen Chang avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1991 2 editions |
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