Resistance against and collusion with colonialism: Eileen Chang’s writing and translation of “Steamed Osmanthus Flower Ah Xiao’s Unhappy Autumn”

• Main Authors: Qiao Meng,, Omar, Noritah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2012
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40764/1/Resistance%20Against%20and%20Collusion%20with%20Colonialism%20Eileen%20.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40764/; http://pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2020%20(2)%20Jun.%202012/19%20Pg%20563-576.pdf

Despite rising to stardom with her brilliant writings in Shanghai in the 1940s, Eileen Chang was criticised by the Leftist writers of her time and other later critics for failing to represent the general political panorama in China. In fact, they studied her works only with regard to the relations b...