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"After leaving the Mainland for Hong Kong in 1952, Eileen Chang was commissioned by the United States Information Service to write two books, one of which was her magnificent novel Naked Earth. Far from being a simplistic exercise in anti-Communist propaganda (two previous novels...

The most famous sisters in China, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power during a time of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations. Red Sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen; Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Big Sister, Ei-L...

Set Japanese-occupied Shanghai, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, lo...

Chang-rae, a first-generation Korean-American, has returned to his family home in San Francisco to care for his ailing mother. Wanting nothing more than to fulfill his role as the supportive son, Chang-rae must come to terms with his own conflicted emotions toward his mother.

张爱玲研究专家,湖北大学文学院教授刘川鄂积30年之功,打造的一部关于张爱玲的传记.本书共40万字,全面呈现了张爱玲传奇的一生:显赫的出身,不幸的童年,大红大紫的中年以及落寞的晚年.本书资料翔实,言必有据,语言平实,情感克制,"于事物,于感觉,皆是老老实实",不夸饰,不故作惊人之语.全书着重探讨对张爱玲"何以至此"的理解:何以成为文学家,何以寂寞一生,何以成为别人眼中的"怪人".这种理解力,体现了作者的洞察,使得整部传记充满了人性的温度.本书写张爱玲,不是写悬空的人,而是将其置于时代背景下,考察她在时代中的人际交往,文学成就,如此,不仅张爱玲个人跃然纸上,...

"A Little Reunion" is the last work by the renowned Eileen Chang who was still revising this quasi-autobiography at the time of her death. It took a lot of courage to publish this novel that Chang herself wasn't happy with, especially since some characters in the book were in hea...

Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerou...

"The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi on a pilgrimage from Mount Hua to Chang'an, the Western capital; Baoshi is...

"This new collection of work by the great Eileen Chang includes previously untranslated stories and essays from throughout her career, starting with her glamorous debut in 1940s Shanghai and continuing through the trials of her Cold War migration to Hong Kong and the U.S. East Co...