Eileen Chang's Prose

Author: Eileen Chang
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: I am a strange girl, regarded as a genius since childhood, with no other goal of survival except to develop my talent. However, as the fantasies of my childhood gradually fade, I realize that I have nothing left but the dream of genius—only the eccentric and flawed traits of a genius. The world forgives Wagner's eccentricity, but they will not forgive me. This book mainly includes: "The Genius Dream," "After All, She Is a Shanghai," "Foreigners Watching Peking Opera and Other Essays," "Changing Clothes," "Apartment Life," "The Trumpet of Night Camp," "Seeing the Way with One's Eyes," "Must We Rectify Names?" "Remains of a Smoldering Fire," "On Women," "Borrowing a Lantern," "On Writing," "Love," "A Girl in the Car," "Go! Go Up to the Building," "Silver Palace," "Childish Innocence," "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"What to Write," "The Religion of the Chinese," "Unforgettable Paintings," "Under the Umbrella," "Yan Ying's Sayings," "Unpublished Manuscripts," "A Word on the Reprinting of 'Romance of the Times'," "On Dancing," "On Music," "Short of Breath but Full of Emotion and Other Essays,"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," and "My View on Su Qing."