Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang
Chang in British Hong Kong in 1954
Born	Zhang Ying (張煐) (1920-09-30)September 30, 1920 Shanghai, Republic of China
Died	September 8, 1995(1995-09-08) (aged 74) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Pen name	Liang Jing (梁京)[1]
Occupation	Novelist essayist literature author playwright screenwriter short story writer
Education	St. Mary's Hall
Alma mater	University of Hong Kong St. John's University
Period	1932–1995
Genre	Literary fiction
Notable works	Lust, Caution Love in a Fallen City
Spouse	Hu Lancheng ​ ​ (m. 1944; div. 1947)​ Ferdinand Reyher ​ ​ (m. 1956; died 1967)​
Relatives	Zhang Peilun (paternal grandfather) Li Hongzhang (great-grandfather)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	張愛玲
Simplified Chinese	张爱玲
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Àilíng Gwoyeu Romatzyh Jang Ayling Wade–Giles Chang1 Ai4-ling2
Liang Jing
Chinese	梁京
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Liáng Jīng Wade–Giles Liang2 Ching1

Eileen Chang (traditional Chinese: 張愛玲; simplified Chinese: 张爱玲; pinyin: Zhāng Àilíng; Wade–Giles: Chang¹ Ai⁴-ling²；September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995), also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter.

Chang was born with an aristocratic lineage and educated bilingually in Shanghai. She gained literary prominence in Japanese-occupied Shanghai between 1943 and 1945. However, after the Communists defeated the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War, she fled the country. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was rediscovered by scholars such as C. T. Hsia and Shui Jing. Together with the re-examination of literary histories in the post-Mao era during the late 1970s and early 1980s, she rose again to literary prominence in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the Chinese diaspora communities.^[2]