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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

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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 herse...more

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avg rating: 3.71 | 319 ratings | 58 reviews | 29 distinct works | 3 fans

	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	my rating:
	Lust, Caution: The Story by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.56 — 123 ratings — published 2005 9 editions	my rating:
	The Rouge of the North by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.17 — 12 ratings — published 1998 3 editions	my rating:
	The Rice Sprout Song by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 1954 4 editions	my rating:
	Written On Water (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published 1991 3 editions	my rating:
	La storia del giogo d'oro by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	Traces of Love and Other Stories by Eileen Chang avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2000	my rating:
	Zhang Ailing wen ji by Eileen Chang avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1992	my rating:
	小團圓 by Eileen Chang avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2009	my rating:
	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	my rating: