Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang
Chang in British Hong Kong in 1954
Chang in British Hong Kong in 1954
BornZhang Ying (張煐)
(1920-09-30)September 30, 1920
Shanghai, Republic of China
DiedSeptember 8, 1995(1995-09-08) (aged 74)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Pen nameLiang Jing (梁京)[1]
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • literature author
  • playwright
  • screenwriter
  • short story writer
EducationSt. Mary's Hall
Alma materUniversity of Hong Kong
St. John's University
Period1932–1995
GenreLiterary fiction
Notable worksLust, Caution
Love in a Fallen City
Spouse
(m. 1944; div. 1947)
(m. 1956; died 1967)
Relatives
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhāng Àilíng
Gwoyeu RomatzyhJang Ayling
Wade–GilesChang1 Ai4-ling2
Liang Jing
Chinese梁京
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiáng Jīng
Wade–GilesLiang2 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]

  1. ^ Sun, Rui Zhen (May 22, 1988). "Eileen Chang's Brief Account of Life and Activities (張愛玲生平和創作活動簡記)". Xueshu Yuekan (學術月刊) (in Chinese) (2): 159–163. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  2. ^ "Chang, Eileen (Zhang Ailing) 1920–1995." Encyclopedia of Modern China, edited by David Pong, vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009, pp. 193-195. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Accessed 24 Mar. 2019.