Eileen Chang (1920–1995)
Auteur van Love in a Fallen City
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Werken van Eileen Chang
张爱玲小说集 (套装共5册) / Eileen Chang's classic novel set / full package/ 5 volumes /(Chinese Edition) (2012) 1 exemplaar
Lust. Caution disconsolate Hutchison (Zhang Ailing Portfolio) [recorded 6](Chinese Edition) (2000) 1 exemplaar
張愛玲小說集 1 exemplaar
餘韻 1 exemplaar
The Golden Cangue 1 exemplaar
LA CANCIÓN DEL ARROZ 1 exemplaar
传奇 增订本 1 exemplaar
Czerwona Róża, Biała Róża 1 exemplaar
Un amour dévastateur 1 exemplaar
SEDUÇÃO, CONSPIRAÇÃO 1 exemplaar
Chuyện tình giai nhân 1 exemplaar
張愛玲短篇小說集 1 exemplaar
傳奇 1 exemplaar
傾城之戀 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- 張愛玲
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Zhang Ying (birth)
张煐
Zhang Ailing - Geboortedatum
- 1920-09-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1995-09-08
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- China (birth)
USA - Geboorteplaats
- Shanghai, China
- Plaats van overlijden
- Westwood, California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Shanghai, China
Los Angeles, California, USA
Hong Kong, China - Opleiding
- University of Hong Kong
Saint John's University, Shanghai
Saint Maria Girls' School - Beroepen
- writer
novelist
translator - Organisaties
- United States Information Service
- Korte biografie
- Eileen Chang [born Zhang Ying, renamed Zhang Ailing] (September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995) was one of the most influential modern Chinese writers.
Chang is noted for her fiction writings that deal with the tensions between men and women in love, and are considered by some scholars to be among the best Chinese literature of the period. Chang's portrayal of life in 1940s Shanghai and Japanese-occupied Hong Kong is remarkable in its focus on everyday life and the absence of the political subtext which characterised many other writers of the period. The Taiwanese author Yuan Chiung-chiung drew inspiration from Chang. The poet and University of Southern California professor Dominic Cheung commented "had it not been for the political division between the Nationalist and Communist Chinese, she would have almost certainly won a Nobel Prize".
Eileen Chang in Wikipedia
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Half a Lifelong Romance (Vintage International) door Eileen Chang
Goddamn what a story
I really hoped to like this but it seemed more like a soap opera than novel: boy meets girl, boy/girl fall in love, life repeatedly conspires to keep them apart. Although Chang wrote some of her works in English, she wrote this particular novel in Chinese and, sadly, I found the translation—although it read easily—a constant issue. The translator’s word choices and her syntax regularly made Chang’s writing appear stilted, a problem I have not had reading her works before. Worse, although the characters were well-drawn and believable, the situations were almost constantly melodramatic and only seemed to become more so as the book went on. According to the translator’s (useful) Introduction, this is “by almost any count, Eileen Chang’s most popular novel.” If so (and I have no reason to doubt it), I can only assume that the Chinese audience has wholly different expectations and reads the novel in a context that I simply cannot appreciate. Disappointing.… (meer)
My first book by her. I think I'll have to try another. Interesting story but just not enough meat there for me. Time to find another one and see how it goes. (Ang Lee's film of her short story "Lust, Caution," however, is brilliant!)
Wang Chia-chih is a beautiful young student who is sent undercover to seduce Mr Yee, a powerful government official in WWII-era Shanghai. I can see how a good movie could be spun out of a novella like this, but I have to imagine that much of its power is lost in translation.
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