Become Eileen Chang

Born in Hong Kong: Eileen Chang's Foreign Land and the World

The stories by Eileen Chang resonate deeply, and she herself was a legend. This book tells the story of Eileen Chang before she became a legend: at that time, she was just a nineteen-year-old student, wearing thick glasses, anxious about exams, and worried about living expenses, "very ordinary, very ordinary." It's hard to imagine that four years later, she would become the "solitary" writer who looked down on the world. Professor Huang Xincun meticulously sifts through historical materials and critically reads texts, using first-hand information and textual cross-referencing to vividly depict the emergence of Xu Dishan, Anatole France, and others in Eileen Chang's world. This takes us back to Eileen Chang's quiet yet vibrant university days, back to that intense, chaotic wartime Hong Kong, subtly explaining the answer to the mystery of "how Eileen Chang became Eileen Chang."

2025-06-01

北京十月文艺出版社

New Classic Culture

365

9787530224441