Zhang Eileen was the most popular talented girl in Shanghai in the 1940s, and the most eye-catching new star in the literary world at that time. This dazzling new star, with a flowery brush, has left a beautiful figure in the starry modern literary world.
The precociousness of Eileen Chang has been called an "anomaly" in the history of modern Chinese literature. Most of the male characters in Eileen Chang's novels are no longer the favorites of the times and live in the desperation and emptiness of the chaotic world. In her novels, the status of men is "marginalized". In the world of Eileen Chang's novels, there are more than 60 men with different personalities, ages, identities and professions. Among these men, most of them, whether they are mediocre characters in the urban space, the western society, or the remnants of old families, are money-minded, womanizers, vulgar, mean, and incompetent; they are all weak in love, bad in quality, and inclined to profit, and there are few images of a good man. Zhang Eileen's unique perspective and experience of women has enabled these men to be scrutinized from the very beginning, to be written about in an ugly way, and even to be revolted against and cursed, and all of their ugly appearances have been shown to the readers one by one.
Eileen Chang experienced three marriages. Zhang Eileen's first marriage was with Hu Lancheng, a big traitor. This love, let Zhang Eileen love to the bone, for an important to not worth mentioning Hu Lancheng, let himself live in the shadow of pain, and finally became a lonely soul who died away from home. After the victory of the war, Hulan Cheng fled to Wenzhou with the charge of being a traitor, and Zhang Ailing was also implicated. She was regarded as a cultural traitor, and she was unable to defend herself, so she had to shelve her writing. However, the appearance of a man, let her life rise ripples, this person is called Sang arc , because of the first love can not pull themselves out, so the two did not end up together. Zhang Eileen's third love story took place in the United States, the hero is Lai Ya. Just two months after Zhang Eileen and Lai Ya got married, Lai Ya, on whom Zhang Eileen had pinned all her hopes for life, suffered another stroke and was close to death. After that, Eileen began her journey to see her husband's doctor. In April 1967, Lai Ya passed away, and Eileen began to live alone again, at the age of 47 years old.
Eileen Chang was eventually disappointed by the lack of warmth in her family, and the disappointment of her troubled relationship, so she didn't have much of a crush on men anymore.