Eileen Chang
30 September 1920 – 8 September 1995
Eileen Chang was a Chinese-American writer celebrated for her fiction depicting life in 1940s Shanghai and Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. Her acclaimed works include Love in a Fallen City and the novella Lust, Caution. She later emigrated to the United States, where she continued to write.
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Life events
Zhang Ailing, known in English as Eileen Chang, was born into a prominent Shanghai family.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe began studying literature in Hong Kong before the Japanese occupation interrupted her studies.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe published the stories and essays that made her a literary sensation in wartime Shanghai.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer celebrated novella depicted romance against the backdrop of the fall of Hong Kong.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe left China via Hong Kong and settled in the United States.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe married the American screenwriter Ferdinand Reyher in the United States.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer espionage novella, later adapted into a film by Ang Lee, was published.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEileen Chang died alone in her apartment in Los Angeles at the age of 74.
Source: en.wikipedia.org