Eileen Chang's Prose

Author: Eileen Chang
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: This book mainly includes the following contents: A Dream of Genius; Truly a Shanghai Person; Foreigners Watching Peking Opera and Other Essays; Changing Clothes; Notes on Apartment Life; The Nightingale's Trumpet; The Way of the Eyes; Must It Be Named?; Remains; On Women; Borrowing a Lantern; On Writing; Love; A Girl in the Car; Walk! Walk Up to the Building; Notes on 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Nonsense; What to Write; The Religion of the Chinese; Unforgettable Paintings; Under the Umbrella; Yan Ying's Sayings; Unpublished Manuscripts; Preface to the Reissue of Legends; On Dancing; On Painting; On Music; Short of Breath but Full of Emotion and Other Essays; "Photographs at the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; My Father-in-Law's Heart; 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 Collection of Eileen Chang's Novels; Remembrance of Hu Shih; Preface to "Zhang Kans"; Preface to "Dream of the Red Chamber"; Preface to "How Much Love"; 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; Questions About "The Flowering River"; Grass-Fired Cake "Gah?";