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This 10 page report discusses the remarkable literary artistry of Eileen Chang or Chang Ai-ling. Chang's books such as 'The Rice Sprout Song' and 'The Rouge of the North' have a universal appeal for all readers since they deal with common life themes that have an impact on people everywhere, regardless of nationality. Her work is particularly interesting in light of the timeframe in which she was writing and her own status as a literary exile. Her work has been banned in China until this decade due to its open and harsh examination of life in China under Communism. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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marriage that ultimately drives her insane, and the story of the a shy Nanjing native who cannot escape the pull of his hometown and loses a woman he loves because
of it. Although set in China and featuring native characters, Changs books have a universal appeal for all readers since they deal with common life themes that have an impact
on people everywhere, regardless of nationality. Chang presents her stories with a unique combination of Western and so-called "modern" realism" with the ancient realities that are a common part
of "modern" life in China. While the topics of her novels appear to be relatively commonplace, they are also non-judgmentally political in their
clear presentation of what life for the average person is like in the Peoples Republic of China. For example, the first of her novels to be written in English, The
Rice-Sprout Song (1957) portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Changs depiction of the peasants desperate attempts
to survive both the impending famine and government abuse demonstrate her understanding of and her ability to convey, as the promotional copy on the book announces, "desire, loneliness, and hunger,
both physical and metaphysical." 20th Century Chinese LiteratureAfter Chinas republican revolution in 1911, most Chinese writers avoided the more entrenched and traditionalist styles
of literary composition. Many began to write in vernacular rather than classical language and presented a more human focus in both fiction and exposition rather than the overtly political
or spiritual emphasis that had been favored for centuries. Prior to the 20th century, folk, or vernacular, literature was considered beneath the notice of members of the scholar-official class, who
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