Written on Water (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

Known as "the Garbo of Chinese letters" for her elegance and the aura of mystery that surrounded her, Eileen Chang is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Written on Water, first published in 1945 and now available for the first time in English, Chang offers essays on art, literature, war, and urban life, as well as autobiographical reflections. Chang takes in the sights and sounds of wartime Shanghai and Hong Kong, with the tremors of national upheaval and the drone of warplanes in the background, and inventively fuses explorations of urban life, literary trends, domestic habits, and historic events. 
These evocative and moving firsthand accounts examine the subtle and not-so-subtle effects of the Japanese bombing and occupation of Shanghai and Hong Kong. Eileen Chang writes of friends, colleagues, and teachers turned soldiers or wartime volunteers, and her own experiences as a part-time nurse. Her nuanced depictions range from observations of how a woman's elegant dress affects morale to descriptions of hospital life.
With a distinctive style that is at once meditative, vibrant, and humorous, Chang engages the reader through sly, ironic humor; an occasionally chatty tone; and an intense fascination with the subtleties of modern urban life. The collection vividly captures the sights and sounds of Shanghai, a city defined by its mix of tradition and modernity. Chang explores the city's food, fashions, shops, cultural life, and social mores; she reveals and upends prevalent attitudes toward women and in the process presents a portrait of a liberated, cosmopolitan woman, enjoying the opportunities, freedoms, and pleasures offered by urban life. In addition to her descriptions of daily life, Chang also reflects on a variety of artistic and literary issues, including contemporary films, the aims of the writer, the popularity of the Peking Opera, dance, and painting.

Literature & Fiction

Eileen Chang

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

A major motion picture (2007) from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II. In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the resistance, and Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure who works for the Japanese occupational government. As these two move deftly between Shanghai’s tea parties and secret interrogations, they become embroiled in the complicated politics of wartime—and in a mutual attraction that may be more than what they expected. Written in lush, lavish prose, and with the tension of a political thriller, Lust, Cautionbrings 1940s Shanghai artfully to life even as it limns the erotic pulse of a doomed love affair.

Lust, Caution: The Story

Contemporary

Anchor Books

Half a Lifelong Romance

Literary

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Written on Water

NYRB Classics

Lust, Caution (Se Jie, in Simplified Chinese NOT in English)

北京出版社

Visit City(chinese Edition)重访边城

张爱玲

北京十月文艺出版社

张爱玲全集06:流言 平装

北京出版集团公司 北京十月文艺出版社

Little Reunions (Chinese Edition)

Beijing October literature and Arts Press

The Red Rose and the White Rose (Chinese Edition)

张爱玲著的《倾城之恋(精)》收录张爱玲于一九四三年至一九四四年创作的中短篇小说，包括《第一炉香》《第二炉香》《茉莉香片》《心经》《封锁》《倾城之恋》《琉璃瓦》《金锁记》《连环套》等。《倾城之恋》是张爱玲的代表作，讲述白流苏和范柳原这一对现实庸俗的男女，在战争的兵荒马乱之中被命运掷骰子般地掷到了一起，于“一刹那”体会到了“一对平凡的夫妻”之间的“一点真心”。

Love in a Fallen City (Chinese Edition)

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