Eileen Chang

A New York Review Books Original ?[A] giant of modern Chinese literature? - The New York Times "With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture,

There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood stre...

In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high-society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces, and in wartime things are not always what they seem. Jiazhi's life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin's bullet. Yet as she...