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Eileen Chang

Novelist and essayist

The greatest novelist to have written in the modern Chinese language, Eileen Chang was literary genius incarnate. At 23, she became the most celebrated author in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. At 32, she exiled herself from mainland China, never to return. In the United States, she lived as a recluse for 40 years, while in the Sinophone universe, she has come to be revered as the most accomplished writer of a bygone age.

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