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Zhang Ailing , nota anche con il nome inglese Eileen Chang, è stata una scrittrice, saggista e sceneggiatrice cinese, e una delle più influenti voci del panorama letterario cinese moderno.

Zhang è nota per i suoi romanzi che affrontano il tema delle tensioni amorose tra uomini e donne e della vita quotidiana nella Shanghai degli anni Quaranta e nella Hong Kong occupata dai giapponesi. A differenza di molti altri scrittori dell'epoca, la sua scrittura è priva di un significato politico sottinteso.

La popolarità di Zhang e la sua immagine pubblica sono state in netto contrasto con la sua vita personale, ricca di delusioni e tragedie e caratterizzata dall'isolamento. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Settembre 1920 – 8. Settembre 1995
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“When you meet the one among the millions, when amid millions of years, across the borderless wastes of time, you happen to catch him or her, neither a step too early nor a step too late, what else is there to do except to ask softly: "So you're here, too?"”

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Eileen Chang

10. "Love" (p. 79)
Liuyan [《流言》] (1968)

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies…”

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2. "Writing of One's Own" (pp. 17–18)
Liuyan [《流言》] (1968)
Contesto: In this era, the old things are being swept away and the new things are still being born. But until this historical era reaches its culmination, all certainty will remain an exception. People sense that everything about their everyday lives is a little out of order, out of order to a terrifying degree. All of us must live within a certain historical era, but this era sinks away from us like a shadow, and we feel we have been abandoned. In order to confirm our own existence, we need to take hold of something real, of something most fundamental, and to that end we seek the help of an ancient memory, the memory of a humanity that has lived through every era, a memory clearer and closer to our hearts than anything we might see gazing far into the future. And this gives rise to a strange apprehension about the reality surrounding us. We begin to suspect that this is an absurd and antiquated world, dark and bright at the same time. Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies, producing a solemn but subtle agitation, an intense but as yet indefinable struggle.

“In this era, the old things are being swept away and the new things are still being born. But until this historical era reaches its culmination, all certainty will remain an exception. People sense that everything about their everyday lives is a little out of order, out of order to a terrifying degree. All of us must live within a certain historical era, but this era sinks away from us like a shadow, and we feel we have been abandoned. In order to confirm our own existence, we need to take hold of something real, of something most fundamental, and to that end we seek the help of an ancient memory, the memory of a humanity that has lived through every era, a memory clearer and closer to our hearts than anything we might see gazing far into the future. And this gives rise to a strange apprehension about the reality surrounding us. We begin to suspect that this is an absurd and antiquated world, dark and bright at the same time. Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies, producing a solemn but subtle agitation, an intense but as yet indefinable struggle.”

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Eileen Chang

2. "Writing of One's Own" (pp. 17–18)
Liuyan [《流言》] (1968)