To me, no writer has ever used the Chinese language as cruelly as Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang), and no story of hers is as beautiful or as cruel as "Lust, Caution."
Eileen Chang's thrilling short story "Lust, Caution"--a devastating tale of love, betrayal, and manipulation set in Shanghai during World War II--marks with a forceful clarity her mastery of the form. Newly adapted into a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee, Lust, Caution has become an equally remarkable addition to the work of one of the most internationally renowned directors.
Included in this unique volume are the original story by Eileen Chang, as well as the screenplay by Wang Hui Ling and James Schamus. Key members of the production have written notes about Chang and about the process of adapting "Lust, Caution." With a biographical essay on Chang by translator Julia Lovell and eight pages of color stills from the film, this volume will become the definitive edition for film students and aficionados alike.

A collection of novellas, film scripts, and essays by Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing). The title essay A Return To The Frontier was originally published in English in the bi-weekly magazine The Reporter in 1962. It is her travelogue of Taiwan and Hong Kong. In Simplified Chinese.

张爱玲小说选集。

A travers deux courts romans qui explorent, comme en miroir, les moeurs anglaises et chinoises de l'époque coloniale, Eileen Chang nous offre une analyse subtile des ressorts amoureux - dans une société décadente où séduction et sensualité, pudeur et obscénité répondent à des convenances d'une exquise hypocrisie. Premier brûle-parfum. La jeune Wei-lung sollicite la protection d'une tante, riche mondaine sur le déclin, laquelle voit en elle la promesse d'une nouvelle stratégie... Second brûle-parfum. Roger Empton, professeur à South China University, épouse une jeune fille idéale qui par grand mystère ignore tout du désir... Délicatesse infinie et cruauté feutrée des sentiments, malentendus, emportements secrets, suavité évanescente des passions et de leurs ruses... Ici, l'enchantement romanesque a la force d'une promesse entre deux amants. Et c'est le coeur battant que nous entrons dans l'univers de ces Deux brûle-parfums.

From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai.

Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life together - until circumstances force them apart. When they are reunited after a separation of many years, can they start their relationship again? Or is it destined to be the romance of only half a lifetime? This affectionate and captivating novel tells the moving story of an enduring love affair, and offers a fascinating window onto Chinese life in the first half of the twentieth century.