false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172548515m/189123.jpg 189123 6 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. 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. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. <i>Love in a Fallen City</i>, the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, introduces American readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master. 182833 1938 Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics) total:142|5:36|4:57|3:34|2:14|1:1| 142 539 304 30 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 18:17:59 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 11:03:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 08 10:00:17 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 27 16:00:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 15:49:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 22:09:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 13:54:13 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:03:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 23 13:31:18 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 14:29:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue May 06 11:29:06 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 10:43:28 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 11:29:06 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 07 21:19:52 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 21:21:30 -0800 2008 3 1 false false Thu Aug 09 14:31:53 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 19:50:48 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 10:32:07 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 00:46:40 -0700 2009
While I always felt a sense of dread when starting each new story, kno...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 09 22:42:14 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 23:02:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Oct 31 20:04:46 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 20:19:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 25 05:48:55 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 05:57:08 -0800 2008 writers, I had found Eileen Zhang mentioned
in another book.

I enjoyed Love in a fallen city in the sense
that I was drawn into the lives of the
people she profiled so completely.
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I got curious about Chang after watching Ang Lee's Lust Caution, a film based on a Chang short story. The local library didn't have a book with that story so I thought I'd try this one.

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