Eileen Chang's Prose

Author: Eileen Chang
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: This book mainly includes the following contents: A Dream of Genius; After All, She Was a Shanghai Woman; Westerners Watching Peking Opera and Other Essays; Changing Gowns; The Pleasures of Apartment Life; The Trumpet of the Night Camp; The Necessity of Naming; Remains; On Women; Borrowing a Lantern; On Writing; Love; A Girl in the Car; Walk! Walk Up to the Building; A Record of Studies at the Silver Palace; Innocent Words; Creating People; Hitting People; On Carrots; My Own Writings; Whispers; Poetry and Nonsense; What to Write; The Religion of the Chinese People; Unforgettable Paintings; Under the Umbrella; Yan Ying's Sayings; Unpublished Manuscripts; Preface to the Second Edition of Legends; On Dancing; On Painting; On Music; Short of Breath but Full of Emotion and Other Essays; "Photographs at the Beginning of the Book" and Other Essays; Echoes; Luck; Secrets; The Heart of the Father-in-Law; My View of Su Qing; [Appendix] Conversations Between Su Qing and Eileen Chang; The Sayings of Auntie Gu; China's Days and Nights; A Few Words to the Readers; Preface to the Collected Stories of Eileen Chang; Remembrance of Hu Shih; Preface to "Zhang Kàn"; Preface to "Dream of the Red Chamber"; Preface to "How Much Sorrow"; Notes on Reading; Postscript to Notes on Reading; Preface to the Continuation; On "Laughter and Tears";; Aunt and Niece and Other Stories; On Eating and Filling One's Stomach with Empty Promises; Postscript to the Translation of "The Flowering River" in Mandarin; Some Questions About "The Flowering River"; Grass-Fired Cakes "Gah?";