Eileen Chang





Eileen Chang

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born
September 30, 1920 in Shanghai, China

died
September 08, 1995

gender
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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 herself for a Hong Kong film studio...more


Average rating: 3.75 · 966 ratings · 148 reviews · 15 distinct works
Love in a Fallen City
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 1938 — 11 editions
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Lust, Caution: The Story
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3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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The Rice Sprout Song
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions
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The Rouge of the North
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Written on Water
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Lust, Caution and Other Sto...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
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小團圓
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009
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Traces of Love and Other St...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Fall Of The Pagoda
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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La storia del giogo d'oro
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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