Eileen Chang

Zhang Ying, who took the first name Ailing, was born in Shanghai on 30 September 1920; her grandfather had married a daughter of the dignitary Li Hongzhang. Her father was addicted to opium and her mother went to live in Europe. Admitted to the University of London in 1939, she could not go there because of the war and studied at the University of Hong Kong, then returned to Shanghai, where she became famous under the occupation. Married in 1944 to Hu Lancheng, regarded as a traitor, she divorced in 1947, left for Hong Kong in 1952, then for the United States in 1955. She died in Los Angeles on 8 September 1995.

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• NarrativeLove in a Fallen City傾城之戀Eileen Chang · 1943Literature