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"These firsthand accounts examine the subtle and not-so-subtle effects of the Japanese bombing and occupation of Shanghai and Hong Kong. Eileen Chang ...
A best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, and political intrigue during World War II in China. Now available in Engl...
These stories combine an unsettled, probing, contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity....
A Novel of Modern China
"A modern Chinese classic."--C. T. Hsia, author of History of Modern Chinese Fiction...
Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in mainland Chi...
There were two women in Zhenbao�s life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistre...
In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading...
This is the first of two semi-autobiographical novels written originally in English which depict Chang's childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai. The ...
Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family...
Considered one of the great works of Chinese fiction, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is a story of desire and virtue set in the pleasure quarters of ...
Relates the events in the life of a Chinese lower-class woman trapped within the confines of an unhappy arranged marriage, resulting in her gradual de...
An NYRB Classics Original Set in the early years of Mao’s China, Naked Earth is the story of two earnest young people confronting the grim realities...
Ce vestibule, dans la clarté parcimonieuse des lampes, ressemblait en tout point à un compartiment de train, passant l'une après l'autre les fronti...
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" Voici ce que je me disais, autrefois : lorsque mes textes seront publiés, j'irai faire un tour dans tous les kiosques à journaux, y jeter un coup ...
A Novel
A Novel about China
Stories and Essays
“China's Virginia Woolf.” —The Wall Street Journal Now in English for the first time, stories about love, sex, and migration by one of the great...