![]() In 1939, Chang was accepted to the University of London on a full scholarship, but was unable to attend due to World War II. Īt an early age, under her mother's influence, Chang began painting, playing piano, and learning English. Mary's Hall, Shanghai, even though her family was not religious. In 1937, she graduated from an all-female Christian boarding high school, St. Chang had obtained excellent English skills besides her native Chinese. (Picture taken in June 2013)Ĭhang started school at age 4. The gate of Eddington House in Shanghai, Eileen Chang lived here in 1942. ![]() Chang eventually ran away to live with her mother and they stayed with her mother for nearly two years, until she went to university. Instead of seeking medical treatment, her father beat her and forced her to stay in her bedroom for six months. After that, Chang and her younger brother Zhang Zijing ( 張子靜 1921–1997) were raised by their father.Īt the age of 18, Chang contracted dysentery. However, Chang's parents eventually divorced in 1930. In 1927, after Chang's father promised to end his drug usage and extramarital affairs, Chang and her mother came back and settled in Shanghai. During this time, Chang's mother decided to travel with her aunt to study in France. Beginning in 1924, her father often brought back prostitutes or concubines and became heavily addicted to opium, which led to fights between her parents. When she was three, her father introduced her to Tang poetry. In 1922, when Chang was two years old, the family relocated to Tianjin. She also spent her childhood with paternal aunt Zhang Maoyuan ( 張茂淵 1898–1991). Chang's paternal grandfather, Zhang Peilun (1848–1903) married Li Ju'ou ( 李菊耦 1866–1916) and was son-in-law to Li Hongzhang, an influential Qing court official. Chang's maternal great-grandfather, Huang Yisheng ( 黃翼升 1818–1894), was a prominent naval commander. Life Childhood and youth Ĭhang was born Zhang Ying ( 張煐) in Shanghai, China on September 30, 1920. Chang was also known for her view of modern history, displaying colours, lines, and moods in her writing and juxtaposition of historical reality with the domain of domesticity. She sought to recount the seemingly irrelevant details and experiences of daily life of ordinary men and women in periods of social change and violence. Her most important contribution was her construction of a unique wartime narrative, one that deviated from the grand accounts of national salvation and revolution. Ĭhang was a realist and modernist writer. ![]() In the early 1990s, Chang became popular to the people in China again. Together with the re-examination of literary histories in the post- Mao era during the late 1970s and early 1980s, she rose again to literary prominence in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the Chinese diaspora communities. ![]() In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was rediscovered by scholars such as C. However, after the Communist takeover of China, she fled the country. She gained literary prominence in Japanese-occupied Shanghai between 19. She was a well-known feminist woman writer of Chinese literature, known for portraying life in the 1940s Shanghai and Hong Kong.Ĭhang was born with an aristocratic lineage and educated bilingually in Shanghai. Eileen Chang ( traditional Chinese: 張愛玲 simplified Chinese: 张爱玲 pinyin: Zhāng Àilíng Wade–Giles: Chang 1 Ai 4-ling 2;Septem– September 8, 1995), also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter.
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