Asia Times: Eileen Chang's fractured legacy
In her lifetime, Chinese icon Eileen Chang could not bring herself to publish the autobiographical Little Reunion, written under the pain-filled shadow of her ex-husband. That it was published this year and is flying off the shelves is an odd fate for the writings of an elitist, introspective and apolitical author who penned her greatest works in Shanghai in the 1940s and died alone in Los Angeles in 1995. - Peter Lee