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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 sometime pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese and American writer. Chang was born in Shanghai to a family with aristocratic lineage and received a bilingual education in Chinese and Eng…
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Born 30 September 1920 · Died 8 September 1995 · Q197155
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On the occasion of the centennial celebration of Chang's birth, an online exhibition Eileen Chang at the University of Hong Kong was presented on the website for the University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong
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Roland Soong handed Eileen Chang's manuscripts to Hong Kong scholar Rosanna Fong (馮睎乾) for organization and research
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Eileen Chang's literary executor, Roland Soong, managed to have the unfinished novel published, with a Chinese translation by Zheng Yuantao
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The theatre took the Cantonese performance to New York, Shanghai, and Toronto
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The Soong family donated some of Chang's manuscripts to the East Asian Library at the University of Southern California, including the English translation of "The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai" and the unfinished manuscrip
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Chang was found dead in her apartment on Rochester Avenue in Westwood, Los Angeles, by her landlord
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Died 1995-09-08.
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Chang began writing an essay "Table of Love and Hate" (愛憎表), a reflection of her thoughts during her school days
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Crown Magazine published Chang's novellas Lust, Caution and Fu Hua Lang Rui, as well as her short story "Xiang Jian Huan"
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Completed the English translation of The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai, a late Qing novel written in Wu Chinese by Han Bangqing
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Chang relocated to Los Angeles
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The year Chen died, Chang left her post at Berkeley
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Upon the invitation of Shih-Hsiang Chen, a professor of Oriental Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, Chang became a senior researcher at the Center for Chinese Studies of Berkeley
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Chang held a short-term job at Radcliffe College
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Chang had a writing residency at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
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Chang also wrote two novels based on her own life: The Fall of the Pagoda and The Book of Change
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When she resided in San Francisco, Chang started writing the English novel The Young Marshal based on the love story between the Chinese general Zhang Xueliang and his wife, Zhao Yidi, with an aim to break into the Ameri
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And headed to Taiwan for more opportunities, returning to the United States in 1962
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While living in MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, Chang met and became involved with the American screenwriter Ferdinand Reyher, a Philadelphia native nearly 30 years her senior
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Chang moved to America, struggling to become an English writer
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Realizing her writing career in Shanghai was over
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Left the newly founded People's Republic of China for British Hong Kong and later the United States
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Chang's reputation waned due to postwar cultural and political turmoil
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Hu used another identity and hid in the nearby city of Wenzhou, where he married Fan Xiumei (范秀美)
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Chang met her first husband Hu Lancheng when she was 23 and he was 37
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Chang was introduced to the prominent editor Zhou Shoujuan and gave him a few pieces of her writing
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Chang was accepted to the University of London on a full scholarship, but was unable to attend due to World War II
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Graduated from an all-female Christian boarding high school, St
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After Chang's father promised to end his drug usage and extramarital affairs, Chang and her mother came back and settled in Shanghai
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Her father often brought back prostitutes or concubines and became heavily addicted to opium, which led to fights between her parents
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When Chang was two years old, the family relocated to Tianjin
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Born 1920-09-30.
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