Eileen Chang

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born

September 30, 1920 in Shanghai, China

died

September 08, 1995

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction

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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

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Books by Eileen Chang

Average rating: 3.75 · 966 ratings · 148 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 1938 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Lust, Caution: The Story by Eileen Chang, Julia Lovell (Translator), James Schamus 3.52 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Rice Sprout Song 3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Rouge of the North by Eileen Chang, Ai-Ling Chang, David Der-wei Wang (Foreword by) 3.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Written on Water by Eileen Chang, Andrew Jones, Andrew F. Jones (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lust, Caution and Other Stories 3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	小團圓 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Traces of Love and Other Stories 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fall Of The Pagoda 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	La storia del giogo d'oro 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Eileen Chang

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

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