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Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter (1920–1995)

Also known as: Zhang Ailing, Ái Linh Truong, Ai-ling Chang, Chang Ai-ling, Jing Liang, Ying Chang

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Her Shanghai novels like The Song of Everlasting Sorrow trace women's lives through the city's decades with dense domestic detail. (AI reason)
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Pai Hsien-yung1937–
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Taipei People captures displaced Shanghai and Nanjing elites with elegiac, finely observed psychological portraits. (AI reason)
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Her candid novels and essays of 1940s occupied Shanghai examine marriage and women's independence. (AI reason)
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Xiao Hong1911–1942
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Lyrical, female-centered fiction of Republican-era China with sharp attention to family cruelty and loneliness. (AI reason)
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Dream of the Red Chamber's intricate portrayal of a declining household's women deeply shaped this kind of domestic fiction. (AI reason)
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Chu Tʻien-wen1956–
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Ornate, sensuous prose and urban decadence in Notes of a Desolate Man echo this luxuriant, melancholy style. (AI reason)
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Lin Yutang1895–1976
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Bilingual novels and essays like Moment in Peking depict Chinese family life across eras for English and Chinese readers. (AI reason)
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Li Ang1952–
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Unflinching fiction about sexuality, marriage and women's oppression, as in The Butcher's Wife. (AI reason)
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Edith Wharton1862–1937
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Ironic studies of women trapped by social convention and the marriage market among a fading elite. (AI reason)
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Yu Dafu1896–1945
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Confessional, psychologically raw Republican-era fiction exploring desire and alienation. (AI reason)
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