Eileen Chang
Shanghai-born novelist and short story writer whose psychologically acute fiction about love, money, and survival in wartime China is considered among the finest in twentieth-century Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City and The Golden Cangue are her masterpieces.
Works
- Love in a Fallen CityRomance during wartime Shanghai explores love amid social upheaval
- The Golden CangueTragic exploration of a woman trapped in a loveless marriage
- Lust, CautionWoman spy on dangerous political mission risks personal betrayal
- Red Rose, White RoseTwo sisters married to contrasting men explore conflicting loves
- Written on Water
- The Rice Sprout Song
- Naked Earth
- Little Reunions