Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang (1920–1995) was a Chinese and American writer born in Shanghai to a family of aristocratic lineage, and she was schooled in both Chinese and English. She rose to literary prominence in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, then left the newly founded People's Republic of China in 1952 for British Hong Kong and later the United States. Her work includes Lust, Caution, whose title novella follows a young woman assigned to seduce a government official, and The Rice-sprout Song.