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Eileen Chang

Love in a Fallen City

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A New York Review Books Original ÝÄ giant of modern Chinese literature -The New York Times With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect that divide, just as her heroines often disappeared inside it. She is the fallen angel of Chinese literature, and now, with these excellent new translations, English readers can discover why she is so revered by Chinese readers everywhere. -Ang Lee Eileen Chang was born in China and died in Los Angeles, living most of her life as an obscure, impoveri… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kingsbury, Karen S. (Übers.) / Chang, Eileen (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-59017-178-3
  • EAN: 9781590171783
  • Produktnummer: 2219444
  • Verlag: New York Review Of Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 321 S.
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.0 cm 340 g
  • Gewicht: 340
  • Sonstiges: Ab 14 - 18 J.

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EILEEN CHANG (1920–1995) was born in Shanghai. In 1952 she migrated to Hong Kong to work as a translator for the American News Agency. She fled Communist China for the United States in 1956, never to return again. After living in New York, Chang moved to California, where she was a prominent fiction writer, essayist, public intellectual, and translator. In September 1995 she was found dead in her Los Angeles department. Her works include Romances, The Rice-Sprout Song: A Novel of Modern China, and The Rouge of the North.Karen S. Kingsbury taught English in Chonqing on the Whitman-in-China program, studied Chinese in Taipei and, for fourteen years, taught English language and literature at Tunghai University in Taichung. Her Columbia University doctoral dissertation was on Eileen Chang, and she has published previous translations of Chang’s essays and fiction in Renditions and The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature. She is currently a professor of International Studies at Chatham University.

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