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Eileen Chang

Born

in Shanghai, China

September 30, 1920

Died

September 08, 1995

Genre

Literary Fiction, Fiction

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Eileen Chang is the English name for Chinese author 張愛玲, who 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 Chang Ying to Chang Ai-ling 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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Average rating: 3.85 · 11,456 ratings · 1,336 reviews · 83 distinct works • Similar authors

	Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 3,823 ratings — published 1943 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 1,643 ratings — published 1948 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang, Julia Lovell (Translator), Ang Lee (Afterword) 3.71 avg rating — 1,667 ratings — published 1978 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lust, Caution and Other Stories by Eileen Chang, Julia Lovell (Translator), Karen S. Kingsbury (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 662 ratings — published 1979 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Rose, White Rose by Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 460 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Reunions by Eileen Chang, Martin Merz (Translator), Jane Weizhen Pan (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 470 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naked Earth by Eileen Chang, Perry Link (Introduction) 3.89 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 1954 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rice Sprout Song 3.84 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1954 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La storia del giogo d'oro by Eileen Chang, Alessandra Cristina Lavagnino (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	红玫瑰与白玫瑰：张爱玲小说集 by Eileen Chang, 張愛玲 4.19 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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“In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.”
― Eileen Chang

tags: being-in-charge, life, mind, mindset, self, self-realization

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“She wasn’t a bird in a cage. A bird in a cage, when the cage is opened, can still fly away. She was a bird embroidered onto a screen — a white bird in clouds of gold stitched onto a screen of melancholy satin. The years passed; the bird’s feathers darkened, mildewed, and were eaten by moths, but the bird stayed on the screen even in death.”
― Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City

tags: craftsmanship, imagery, jasmine-tea, women

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June 2020 New School Classic Read

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré, 1963, 224 pages

93 votes, 28.1%

True Grit by Charles Portis, 1968, 224 pages

70 votes, 21.1%

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, 1985, 400 pages

49 votes, 14.8%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921, 255 pages

43 votes, 13.0%

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, 397 pages

31 votes, 9.4%

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington, 1918, 288 pages

28 votes, 8.5%

Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang, 1948, 379 pages

17 votes, 5.1%

331 total votes

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