Now a major motion picture 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, Caution brings 1940s Shanghai artfully to life even as it limns the erotic pulse of a doomed love affair.

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in chinese mainland. These previously unpublished, semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the construction of selfhood in her other novels.

Issue elle-même de la bourgeoise de Shanghai et s'inspirant largement des personnalités qu'elle y côtoyait, Eileen Chang (1920-1995) a été reconnue dès son plus jeune âge comme un auteur majeur de la littérature chinoise contemporaine par la critique de son pays. Son univers singulier a séduit le réalisateur taïwanais Ang Lee (Le Secret de Brokeback Mountain).

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 things are not always what they seem in wartime. 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 waits for him to arrive at their liaison, Jiazhi begins to wonder if she is cut out to be a femme fatale and coldly take Mr Yi to his death. Or is she beginning to fall in love with him? A passionate tale of espionage, deception and love, "Lust, Caution" is accompanied here by four further dazzling short stories by Eileen Chang.

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in chinese mainland.-- Her semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the construction of selfhood in her other novels. --This previously unpublished semi-autobiographical novel continues the story begun in The Fall of the Pagoda, following the girl's experiences as a student at the University of Victoria in Hong Kong, including the city's 1941 fall after Pearl Harbor. Hiding in shelter to escape air raids, she vividly conveys her sense of alienation both as a sojourner in a distant land and as a displaced refugee of war.

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“[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, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect that divide, just as her heroines often disappeared inside it. She is the fallen angel of Chinese literature, and now, with these excellent new translations, English readers can discover why she is so revered by Chinese readers everywhere." – Ang Lee
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang’s achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City , the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, introduces American readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master.

Now available in English for the first time, Eileen Chang’s dark romance opens with Julie, living at a convent school in Hong Kong, on the eve of the Japanese invasion. Her mother, Rachel, long divorced from Julie’s opium-addict father, saunters around the world with various lovers. Recollections of Julie’s horrifying but privileged childhood in Shanghai clash with a flamboyant, sometimes incestuous cast of relations that crowd her life. Eventually, back in Shanghai, she meets the magnetic Chih-yung, a traitor who collaborates with the Japanese puppet regime. Soon they’re in the throes of an impassioned love affair that swings back and forth between ardor and anxiety, secrecy and ruin. Like Julie’s relationship with her mother, her marriage to Chih-yung is marked by long stretches of separation interspersed with unexpected little reunions. Chang’s emotionally fraught, bitterly humorous novel lifts a fractured mirror directly in front of her own heart.

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Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction - tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. "Love in a Fallen City", the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, introduces readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master.
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『赤地之戀』所寫的是真人實事，但是小說究竟不是報導文學，我除了把真正的人名與一部份的地名隱去，而且需要把許多小故事疊印在一起，再經過剪裁與組織。畫面相當廣闊，但也並不能表現今日的大陸全貌，譬如像『五反』，那是比『三反』更深入地影響到一般民眾的，就完全沒有觸及。當然也是為本書主角的視野所限制。同時我的目的也並不是包羅萬象，而是儘可能地複製當時的氣氛。這裡沒有概括性的報導。我只希望讀者們看這本書的時候，能夠多少嗅到一點真實的氣息。

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.

《秧歌》是張愛玲於1955年創作的小說，描寫小村莊農人金根一家在飢餓之中掙扎求存的故事，反映了土改後中國大陸的農村生活。小說最初以英文寫就發表，後由張愛玲本人譯成中文。
該書描寫中國共產黨治下的農村生活，農人面對鄉幹部、軍人等多方壓榨，惶惶不可終日的悲慘生活狀況。故事背景設定於土改完成之後。以農民金根和其妻子月香為主要人物。金根為人訥言而善良。月香則精明而善於處事，本在上海幫傭，後來回到農村。在飢餓中，他們同旁人一樣，都不得不面對沉重而名目繁多的苛捐雜稅，也需要參加各種種政治活動。最終，爲了給四鄉的軍屬拜年，農會給每家攤派半隻豬和四十斤年糕。金根因王同志說他斤兩不足而「嚷起來」，被視為「反革命分子」，其女兒阿招也在混亂中被人踩踏致死。月香同負傷出逃的金根躲在山中。金根為免禍延妻子，投水自殺。月香則燒掉了村中的倉庫，自己也被民兵趕入火海之中。等到春天來臨時，村裏依舊彌漫着飢餓。

（着重展现女主人公内心的情欲煎熬，细腻深切，张爱玲又一难掩光芒的杰作）
☆★－《怨女》收录张爱玲于一九五一年至一九七八年创作的中短篇小说，包括《小艾》《五四遗事》《怨女》《色，戒》《相见欢》《浮花浪蕊》《同学少年都不贱》。有目的的爱都不是真爱。总有一天他也跟她一样，就惦记着家里过日子与榻上这只灯，要它永远点着。她不怕了，他跑不了，风筝的线抓在她手里。
她就光躺在那里留恋着那盏小灯，正照在她眼睛里。整个的城市暗了下来，低低的卧在她脚头，是烟铺旁边一带远山，也不知是一只狮子，或是一只狗躺在那里。
编辑推荐：
☆★－《怨女》英文本入选美国各大学通用教材。 授权，华丽新版。张爱玲1943年发表的《金锁记》被赞为“中国自古以来最伟大的中篇小说”（夏志清语）；二十多年后，张爱玲把三万多字的《金锁记》改写成十万多字的《怨女》，着重展现女主人公内心的情欲煎熬，其细腻深切、摄人心魄的描写使得《怨女》成为又一部难
掩光芒的杰作。《怨女》英文本还入选美国各大学通用教材《中国文学选读》。

短篇小說集之二收錄八個短篇小說及一篇散文。張愛玲說其中〈茉莉香片〉、〈第一爐香〉、〈第二爐香〉、〈心經〉、〈琉璃瓦〉、〈封鎖〉是寫給上海人的香港傳奇。
這是她創作的高峰期，尤其〈第一爐香〉中把上流社會的算計及刻薄、女人的小心眼及愛情觀寫得淋漓盡致，充分展露出張愛玲靈巧的心思，與獨一無二的驚世才華！

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 Chang wrote were pro-Communist), Naked Earth is a powerfully moving, Balzacian tale that follows two young students, Liu Ch’uen and Su Nan, who fall in love at a time when, as Chang writes, “the whole country lay stretched out like an open palm, ready to close around any one person at any minute.” Mao’s land reform movement is in full force, and Liu and Su Nan are sent to a farm to help the peasants take over the fields. The work is hard, the nights long, and slowly it becomes clear that spies abound. Both Liu and Su Nan harbor festering secrets that are pulling them apart and Liu is eventually imprisoned by his enemies and sent to fight on the Korean front. A romance, a thrilling drama, a tragedy, Naked Earth is a stunning work of twentieth-century fiction by one of China’s most revered modern novelists.

The Rouge of the North is the story of Yindi, a beautiful young bride who marries the blind, bedridden son of a rich and noble family. Captive to household ritual, to the strategies and contempt of her sisters-in-law, and to the exacting dictates of her husband's mother, Yindi is pressed beneath the weight of an existence that offers no hope of change. Dramatic events in the outside world fail to make their way into this insular society. Chang's brilliant portrayal of the slow suffocation of passion, moral strength, and physical vitality--together with her masterful evocation of the sights, smells, and sounds of daily existence--make The Rouge of the North a remarkable chronicle of a vanished way of life.

The first of Eileen Chang's novels to be written in English, The Rice-Sprout Song portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Contrary to the hopes of the peasants in this story, the redistribution of land does not mean an end to hunger. Man-made and natural disasters bring about the threat of famine, while China's involvement in the Korean War further deepens the peasants' misery. Chang's chilling depiction of the peasants' desperate attempts to survive both the impending famine and government abuse makes for spellbinding reading. Her critique of communism rewrites the land-reform discourse at the same time it lays bare the volatile relations between politics and literature.