When did Zhang Ailing immigrate to the United States?

In November 1955, Zhang Ailing took the "Cleveland President" cruise ship to the United States. Renting in a women's dormitory run by the Salvation Army in New York, Zhang Ailing and Yan Ying reunited and went to visit Hu Shi together.

In February 1956, Eileen Chang received a writing bonus from the Edward Marc Dowell Colony and moved to New England, where the Colony is located, in February. This writing foundation mainly provides a quiet and comfortable environment for writers. Here, Eileen Chang met her second husband, Mr. Fedinand Reyher. Lai Ya is thirty years older than Zhang Ailing (according to Lai Ya's death in 1967 at the age of 76, he should be 29 years older here), and is a very talented American playwright. In August 1956, Zhang Ailing and Lai Ya got married six months after they met. Eileen Chang began writing the novel "Pink Tears" in English.

Personal introduction

Zhang Ailing, a modern Chinese writer, was originally from Tangshan City, Hebei Province, and her original name was Zhang Yong. Born on September 30, 1920 in a declining aristocratic mansion in the West District of the Shanghai Public Concession.

Her works mainly include novels, essays, film scripts and literary treatises, and her letters have also been studied as part of her works.

In 1944, Zhang Ailing met Hu Lancheng and dated him. In 1973, Eileen Chang settled in Los Angeles. On September 8, 1995, which coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Eileen Chang's landlord found her dead in her apartment on Rochester Avenue in Westwood, California. She died of arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Aged 75, she had been dead for a week when she was found. On September 30, her former friends held a memorial service for her. After the memorial service, her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

Representative works

"The Story of the Golden Lock", "Love in a Fallen City", "Half Life", "Red Roses and White Roses", "Little Reunion", etc.