Chang hoped to launch her American career with these English works but failed to find a publisher.Īlthough the two posthumous books received mixed reviews, they offer readers an insider’s view into the author’s life, especially the second book which revolves around her life in Hong Kong, where her magnum opus Love in A Fallen City (1943) is set.įor a true story of an influential Asian American Hongkonger, check out Clarie Chao’s biography, co-written with her mother Isabel Sun Chao. The semi-autobiographical novel is the second part to The Fall of the Pagoda (2010), which chronicles her childhood and adolescence from 1924 to 1938 in Shanghai. The Book of Change is one of her few works written originally in English inspired by her student days in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. She made her name in the literary arena while a high school student as a result of her works’ unique feminine elegance and classic beauty against the backdrop of a war-torn China. The Shanghai-born novelist studied English Literature at the University of Hong Kong in 1939. Think of a Hong Kong romance writer and Eileen Chang (1920-1995) will definitely come to mind.
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