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Eileen Chang (1920 - 1995) was born in Shanghai. At the age of twenty, she astonished the literary world with a series of novels. Chang studied at the University of Hong Kong, but her education was interrupted by the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, prompting her return to Shanghai. Her works predominantly feature settings in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, intricately depicting landmarks such as the University of Hong Kong, High Street in Sai Ying Pun, the stalls in Wan Chai, the Lee’s Studio in North Point, and the Repulse Bay Hotel. Against a backdrop of desolation, she vividly portrays the entanglements of romantic relationships, the complexities of human nature, and the shifts of the era. Whether in her early works like "Love in a Fallen City" and "Half a Lifelong Romance," or her later work "Lust, Caution," her novels and essays have become timeless classics cherished by generations of readers. |