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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 72: Currently, I don¡¯t read much of the works of female writers. I never read the works of female writers.

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    One of the Demon Guardians - Zhang Ailing

    Zhang Ailing (1920-1995), named Zhang Yong, was a famous female writer. Later, due to the need for schooling, her mother transliterated her English name and changed her name to Ailing.  His ancestral home is Fengrun, Hebei Province.

    Her father is the son of Zhang Peilun, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty. Her mother is the granddaughter of Huang Yisheng, the naval admiral of the seven Yangtze River provinces in the late Qing Dynasty. She is the daughter of Huang Zongyan. Her stepmother is the daughter of Sun Baoqi, the Prime Minister of the Beiyang Government. Her grandmother is the youngest daughter of Li Hongzhang. Zhang Ailing was born into a famous family, so she was favored by  Got an excellent education.

    During the fall of Shanghai, he successively published novels and short stories such as "Agarwood Chips, The First Incense", "Love in a Fallen City", "Heart Sutra", "The Story of the Golden Lock", etc., which shocked the Shanghai community.

    In 1932, Zhang Ailing published her debut short story "Unfortunate She" in the school magazine.

    In 1933, her first essay "Twilight" was published in the school magazine.

    In 1934, Eileen Chang's father held a wedding with the daughter of Sun Baoqi, the former prime minister of the Republic of China. At the same time, Eileen Eileen Chang and her younger brother also grew up under the abuse of their stepmother. Eileen Chang once beat her father for listening to her stepmother's slander and pulled out a pistol.  Threatening to kill her, her brother once broke a piece of glass and was severely beaten by her stepmother. At this time, Zhang Ailing completed "A Modern Dream of Red Mansions" and her father wrote a review of it.

    In 1937, he published many novels in some publications and graduated from middle school that year.

    In 1938, after Zhang Ailing had a verbal conflict with her stepmother and father, she ran away from home and went to her mother Huang Suqiong.

    In 1939, she received a scholarship from the University of London and prepared to study abroad. However, due to the outbreak of World War II, she changed her studies to the University College of Hong Kong.  While studying at the University of Hong Kong, Eileen Chang met a lifelong friend, Yan Ying, a Sri Lankan woman.

    December 8, 1941.  After the Pacific War broke out, by December 25, the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong.

    In 1942, Zhang Ailing had to interrupt her studies and return to Shanghai.  She studied at St. John's University, but dropped out after two months due to financial difficulties. At this time, she chose to pursue a career in creative writing.  At that time, she rented Room 51 of the Eddington Apartment on Hurd Road (Changde Apartment, now located at No. 195 Changde Road, Shanghai) (moved to Room 65 in 1942), and was next to her aunt.

    She initially wrote film reviews for British newspapers.  In 1943, Zhang Ailing met Zhou Shoujuan, a famous writer and editor in Shanghai, and was appreciated. In the two years of 1943 and 1944, she was able to publish a number of sensational short stories and short stories.  Including "The First Incense from Agarwood Chips", "Love in a Fallen City", "Heart Sutra", "The Story of the Golden Lock", etc., they became famous in Shanghai during the occupation period.

    In 1944, Zhang Ailing met and dated Hu Lancheng, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Wang Jingwei's regime and writer.  In 1944, after Hu Lancheng divorced his second wife, he secretly married Zhang Ailing in Shanghai (only Yan Ying and Hu Lancheng's niece Hu Qingyun were present at the wedding).

    Soon, Hu Lancheng went to Wuhan to file a newspaper.  While in the hospital, he seduced a 17-year-old nurse Zhou Xunde and lived with her.

    In 1945, Japan surrendered, and Hu Lancheng adopted the pseudonym Zhang Jiayi.  He fled to Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and taught at Wenzhou Middle School.  During his exile, Hu Lancheng and Fan Xiumei lived together.  In 1946, Zhang Ailing went to Wenzhou to visit.

    1946.  Zhang Ailing collaborated with film director Sang Hu to write a play, which was quite successful.  1947.  Zhang Ailing wrote a letter to break up with Hu Lan who was on the run.

    After the change of power in Shanghai in 1949, Zhang Ailing stayed in Shanghai.

    In 1950, Zhang Ailing participated in a Shanghai art delegation that went to rural areas in northern Jiangsu for two months to participate in land reform. However, she was confused because she was unable to write a work praising land reform required by the government.

    She felt out of tune with the social environment at the time, and due to her relationship with Hu Lancheng, she faced political pressure.

    In 1952, claiming to continue his studies interrupted by the war, he left mainland China alone and moved to Hong Kong.

    While Zhang Ailing was in Hong Kong, she worked for the U.S. Information Service.  He began to write the novels "Yangge" and "Love in Red Earth". The background of the novels was the land reform period.

    Because the work was inconsistent with the mainstream style of the authorities, it was criticized as a poisonous weed.  In mainland academic circles, Zhang Ailing was regarded as a negative example for a long time. It was not until the reform and opening up that things changed.

    During her stay in Hong Kong, Zhang Ailing met her lifelong friends Kuang Mei and Song Qi.  With Song Qi's support, he became one of the main screenwriters of MP&M.  Screenwriting income became Zhang Ailing's main source of income for the next eight years.

    Zhang Ailing is in the United States translating the Qing Dynasty novel "Flowers of the Sea" or writing works recalling old Shanghai, while Lai Ya is a left-wing writer. Neither of their works is accepted by mainstream American society, so their life as a couple is quite embarrassing.

    Later, he relied on Taiwan's "Crown" Publishing Group to collect royalties from reprinting his novels from the 1940s to support himself.

    In 1955, Zhang Ailing went to the United States to settle down.

    In 1956, Zhang Ailing, who was living in embarrassment, lived inAt the McDowell Arts Camp in Petersburg, New Hampshire, she met and became pregnant with the 65-year-old left-wing playwright Ferdinand Reyher. In the same year, the two got married.

    In 1960, Eileen Chang became a U.S. citizen.

    In 1961, Eileen Chang went to Hong Kong and Taiwan to seek opportunities. This was the only time she visited Taiwan in her lifetime, and she met her cousin Chang.

    Zhang Ailing first went to Taipei, where the famous painter Shi Dejin took her around. Then she went sightseeing in Hualien, accompanied by the writer Wang Zhenhe.

    At the beginning of the century, the manuscript of Zhang Ailing's "Revisiting the Border Town" describing her travels in Taiwan was exposed. This is the only chapter of Zhang Ailing describing Taiwan that has been seen so far.

    In 1967, Eileen Chang was invited to serve as the writer-in-residence at the Redcliffe School in the United States, and began to translate the Qing Dynasty novel "The Biography of Flowers on the Sea" into English.

    In 1969, Eileen Chang moved to California and was employed by the University of California, Berkeley.

    In 1973, Eileen Chang settled in Los Angeles and lived in seclusion in her apartment in her later years.

    In 1995, Eileen Chang¡¯s landlord discovered that she had died in her apartment on Rochester Avenue in the Westwood District of Los Angeles, California. She was 75 years old. The direct cause of death was arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.  During her lifetime, Zhang Ailing¡¯s inheritance totaled about 28,000 US dollars in U.S. dollars.

    In 1997, Zhang Cuo, a scholar living in the United States, established the Zhang Ailing Special Collection Center at the University of Southern California. With the consent of Song Qi's widow Kuang Mei, he sent two boxes of Zhang Ailing's posthumous manuscripts to the USC Library, including the hero of "Flowers of the Sea".  The translation is not yet finalized.

    Zhang Ailing created a large number of academic works throughout her life.  Genres include novels, essays, film dramas and academic treatises, and her letters have also been studied as part of the works.

    Anecdote: "When Zhang Ailing was in Shanghai, she liked special clothes. In the three portraits of Shanghai female writers painted at the Shanghai Cartoonist Pavilion at that time, the famous female writers Su Qing and Pan Liudai who were active in Shanghai at the same time were defined as busy editors respectively.  Su Qing and snake charmer Pan Liudai, while Zhang Ailing is characterized by her dazzling costumes.

    During the Republic of China, Zhang Ailing, Su Qing, Guan Lu, and Pan Liudai were the four most talented women who were famous in Shanghai. They became victims of Shanghai's feasting and entertainment and the entertainment items of dignitaries.

    During the same period, there were a large number of young female writers in Shanghai.  They behaved reservedly to each other, and each talked about the female writers of the same generation. They all showed their pride and refused to give in to each other: I don't read much of the works of female writers at present, and I never read the works of female writers.

    Su Qing and Zhang Ailing sing to each other like a double act: Just look at Zhang Ailing (Su Qingyu), and compare me with Bing Xin and Bai Wei. I really can't be proud of it. I am willing to be compared with Su Qing.  .  (In Zhang Ailing¡¯s words).

    In "On Hu Lancheng and Zhang Ailing", Pan Liudai told Hu Lancheng that Zhang Ailing has aristocratic blood (Li Hongzhang's great-granddaughter), and scathingly ridiculed this relationship like an old hen drowning in the Pacific Ocean. Shanghainese eat tap water from the Huangpu River and claim to drink it.  The distance between chicken soup and chicken soup is the same. With the thinking of Shanghainese, the word aristocrat will spread like wildfire in the near future, and then indeed aristocratic pork rib noodles will be on the market. Later, when Zhang Ailing came to Hong Kong, someone told her that Pan Liudai was also in Hong Kong. Zhang Ailing replied:  Who is Pan Liudai?  I do not recognize.

    When Eileen Chang was studying at the University of Hong Kong, she had a good friend, Yan Ying. Eileen Chang described her many times in the book and recorded some quotations from Yan Ying.

    Zhang Ailing¡¯s description of Yan Ying is as follows: Yan Ying¡¯s surname is Mohidean, her father is from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) of Arab descent, believes in Islam, and opens a Mohidean jewelry store in Shanghai.  My mother is from Tianjin. She broke up with her family in order to marry a young Indian overseas Chinese and had no contact with her for many years.

    Yanying¡¯s aunt lives in Nanjing. I have been to their home, which is a typical conservative northern family.  Yan Ying entered the British School in Shanghai and served as the head student assigned by the school. In addition to being excellent in character and study, she also had to be popular and able to convince others.

    We returned to Shanghai to attend St. John's University, and she graduated. I was working part-time and was exhausted. I couldn't make ends meet, so I dropped out of school and started working as a prostitute to make a living.  "
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