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The Fall Of The Pagoda
''The Fall of the Pagoda'' () is a autobiographical novel, semi-autobiographical novel written by Eileen Chang. Originally written in English language, English in 1963, it was published posthumously by Hong Kong University Press on 15 April 2010. Zhao Pihui translated it into Chinese. Language The novel was written originally by Eileen Chang in English rather than Standard Chinese, Chinese, although the author was Chinese. Its author Eileen Chang lived in Shanghai where she spent her childhood. So the translator translated it into Shanghai dialect which can depict their lives vividly. Before its publication, the executor of Eileen Chang's estate, Roland Soong, decided to show people ''The Fall of the Pagoda'' in bilingual, both English and Chinese. According to the voluminous correspondence between Stephen Soong and Eileen Chang, the writer planned to translate it into Chinese but she was afraid that the story about a young girl's childhood cannot stimulate the reader's appetite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang ( zh, t=張愛玲, s=张爱玲, first=t, w=Chang1 Ai4-ling2, p=Zhāng Àilíng；September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995), also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter. She is a well-known feminist in Chinese history, known for portraying life in the 1940s Shanghai and Hong Kong. Chang was born with an aristocratic lineage and educated bilingually in Shanghai. She gained literary prominence in Japanese-occupied Shanghai between 1943 and 1945. However, after the Communist takeover of China, she fled the country. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was rediscovered by scholars such as C. T. Hsia and Shui Jing. Together with the re-examination of literary histories in the post-Mao era during the late 1970s and early 1980s, she rose again to literary prominence in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the Chinese diaspora communities."Chang, Eileen (Zhang Aili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
