65438-0939, Zhang Ailing was admitted to University of London. Because the European War broke out, she couldn't make it, so she had to study at the University of Hong Kong. 1942 When Hong Kong fell, she returned to Shanghai and lived with her aunt in an apartment on Hede Road in Jing 'an Temple. In her spare time, she entertains herself by writing manuscripts, and writes drama reviews, film reviews and essays for The Times, a British magazine. 1943, she published China's first novel "The First Furnace Fragrance of Aquilaria Fragrant Jujube" in Violet Monthly. As soon as her works came out, they immediately caused a sensation in the literary world at that time with novel themes and exquisite writing. Ling Ke, editor of Vientiane Monthly, also published another novel, Heart Sutra. Since then, Zhang Ailing has published novels and essays such as The Golden Lock, Love in the Whole City and Blockade.
1944 published Zhang Ailing's novels in the name of legend, and 1945 published a collection of essays "Gossip" at the beginning of this year. Zhang Ailing's life experience is just like Jia Fu's. Therefore, her works are deeply influenced by A Dream of Red Mansions, full of artistic beauty and desolate feeling of "the past is bleak and unspeakable", which easily resonates with people at that time. Among these works, The Golden Lock and Love in a Fallen City are the most representative. Fu Lei, a translator, once commented that The Golden Lock has the flavor of some stories in Diary of a Madman, and "at least it should be listed as one of the most beautiful achievements in our literary world".
While Zhang Ailing prefers her Love in the City. She once adapted it into a stage play and staged it in large and medium-sized theaters, starring Roland and Comfortable, which made a sensation in Shanghai. Ling Ke later commented on her, saying that such a big literary world could only fulfill her for a short period of time, but the environment was complicated at that time, and the background of some magazines supporting her was unknown. People of insight once advised Zhang Ailing not to publish her works everywhere and wait for the opportunity, but Zhang Ailing thought it was too early to become famous, and she was not so happy when she was too late. Not only did she not listen to advice, but she also married Hu Lancheng, the second minister of Wang Pseudo's Propaganda Department. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, all kinds of criticisms against her in the society became increasingly noisy, and Hu Lancheng abandoned her.
Zhang Ailing was once silent in the literary world in sadness. After the liberation of Shanghai, she attended the first congress of Shanghai literary and art circles on 1950, and then published the novel Eighteen Springs and the novella Little Ai.
From 65438 to 0952, Zhang Ailing went to Hong Kong and worked in the Hong Kong office of the US Information Agency. She wrote two politically inclined novels, Yangko and Love in the Naked Land, for Today's World magazine. From 65438 to 0955, she left Hong Kong for the United States, won a scholarship from the Edward mcdowell Writing Foundation, married Yarra, an American writer, and settled in California. However, this marriage is more bitter than sweet. Shortly after Yarra's stroke, Zhang Ailing had to translate and write plays for a living, and only published English novels Rouge in the North, Jong and Miserable Women.
Their marriage lasted only over ten years, and Yala died in 1967. During 1970, Zhang Ailing was invited to work at the China Research Center in Berkeley, California. She closed the door and worked at home. In ten years, she wrote A Dream of Red Mansions and translated the novel Flowers on the Sea in the late Qing Dynasty. Unfortunately, the English version of Flowers on the Sea was lost in the move and could not be published. 198 1 only in Mandarin. 1978 She also wrote short stories such as Lust, Caution, which described espionage in the 1940s. 1993, she wrote her last work, A Comparative Record, which showed more than 100 photos of her and her family, as if to bid farewell to this world.
In the same year, her works were published in Chinese mainland, and Zhang Ailing became a craze in Shanghai. The following year, Hong Kong also published her complete works. Taiwan Province Times awarded her a special achievement award. People thought of her again, but Zhang Ailing ignored her. She is tired of the world of mortals because of various diseases. She died alone on 1995, and her body was found several days later. Her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.