장아이링

소개

장아이링(중국어 정체자: 張愛玲, 간체자: 张爱玲, 병음: Zhāng Aìlíng, 1920년 9월 30일 ~ 1995년 9월 8일)은 중국의 소설가, 산문가, 영화작가이다. '량징(梁京)'이라는 가명으로도 알려 있다. 중국 현대문학을 대표하는 작가로 《색, 계》의 작가로 잘 알려져 있다.

Eileen Chang (traditional Chinese: 張愛玲; simplified Chinese: 张爱玲; pinyin: Zhāng Àilíng; Wade–Giles: Chang1 Ai4-ling2；September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995), also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her sometime pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese and American writer. Chang was born in Shanghai to a family with aristocratic lineage and received a bilingual education in Chinese and English. She gained literary prominence in Japanese-occupied Shanghai between 1943 and 1945. In 1952, she left the newly founded People's Republic of China for British Hong Kong and later the United States. Since her rediscovery in the late 1960s, she has been one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed writers in the Chinese-speaking world.