Introduction to Zhang Ailing’s life

Zhang Ailing was born in Shanghai on September 30, 1922, and her original name was Zhang Yong. His father is Zhang Yanzhong and his mother is Huang Suying. Grandfather Zhang Peilun and grandmother Li Ju are the daughters of Li Hongzhang. My grandfather is Huang Zongyan, my grandmother is my concubine Xiaomingying. Moved to Tianjin in 1922. He began to receive private education in 1924. In the summer, his mother and his aunt went to study in England together. In 1928, he moved back to Shanghai from Tianjin and his mother returned to China. In 1930, Zhang Yong entered the Huang Elementary School run by the U.S. Congress, transferred to the sixth grade class, and officially changed her name to Zhang Ailing. My parents divorced and my mother went to France. In the second half of 1931, Zhang Ailing entered Shanghai St. Mary's Girls' School to attend middle school. In 1932, he published the short story "Unfortunate She" for the first time. In 1934, my father remarried. In 1936, my mother returned to China. Zhang Ailing graduated from middle school in 1937 and took the exam to study abroad. In 1938, Eileen Chang took the Far East Entrance Examination of the University of London and got the first place. However, she switched to the University of Hong Kong due to World War II. In 1941, Hong Kong fell and the school was closed. In 1942, Zhang Ailing and her friend Yan Ying returned to Shanghai to study at St. John's University, but dropped out of school and began formal literary creation, selling articles to make a living. In 1943, he published works such as "Love in a Fallen City" and "The Story of the Golden Lock", and met Zhou Shoujuan, Ke Ling, and Su Qing. The golden period of Zhang Ailing's literary creation arrived and lasted until she left the mainland in 1952. He met Hu Lancheng for the first time in February 1944 and married him in August and September. (For details, please see "This Life and This Life" written by Hu Lancheng) In 1945, the Anti-Japanese War was won. Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng divorced in 1947. In 1948, my mother officially moved to the UK. From 1950 to 1952, Zhang Ailing wrote the most successful novel "Eighteen Spring". Moved to Hong Kong in 1952. His father died of lung cancer in 1953. He left Hong Kong for the United States in 1955. In February 1956, Zhang Ailing met the playwright Lai Ya in the United States. In August of the same year, she married Lai Ya in New York. My mother died in England in 1957. In 1958, Eileen Chang specialized in writing in California, USA. In 1961, Eileen Chang flew back to Hong Kong and Taiwan from the United States to collect writing materials and write scripts. In 1966, Eileen Chang became a writer-in-residence at the University of Miami. Laiya died in 1967. Eileen Chang went to Drakecliff Women's College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to work as a writer-in-residence and translated "Flowers of the Sea". In 1968, Eileen Chang rewrote "Eighteen Spring" as "Half Life", and the English version of "Flowers of the Sea" was translated. Eileen Chang made a comeback in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 1969, Eileen Chang worked at the China Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Moved to Los Angeles in 1972. In 1994, he won the "Times" Special Achievement Award. Died in his Los Angeles apartment on September 8, 1995, at the age of seventy-four. The ashes were cremated and scattered into the sea.