{"id":16440,"date":"2025-12-03T16:17:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16440"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:17:42","slug":"eileen-chang-exhibition-in-hong-kong-reveals-the-woman-behind-the-chinese-literary-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16440","title":{"rendered":"Eileen Chang exhibition in Hong Kong reveals the woman behind the Chinese literary icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">From correspondence about her short story ideas to worried messages about her deteriorating health to designs for a new qipao she wished to purchase, the woman behind the icon that is Eileen Chang Ai-ling is revealed at a new exhibition in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">\u201cBeyond Distance: Half a Lifelong Friendship of Eileen Chang, Stephen Soong and Mae Fong Soong\u201d is the inaugural exhibition at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU)\u2019s Museum of Modern Chinese Literature. It displays 120 of the nearly 17,000 items <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">entrusted to the university<\/span> in February by the Soong family, executor of the Chinese novelist\u2019s estate since she died in 1995.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The exhibition, which marks the 30th anniversary of Chang\u2019s death, features objects including previously unreleased photographs, original manuscripts and even furniture that belonged to Stephen and Mae-fong Soong \u2013 the couple were Chang\u2019s close friends and she often visited their home in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Rebecca Leung Mo-ling, a professor and director of HKMU\u2019s Tin Ka Ping Centre of Chinese Culture, was instrumental in spearheading the exhibition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Designs for a qipao Chang sent to Mae-fong Soong in 1956 feature at the exhibition at HKMU\u2019s Museum of Modern Chinese Literature. Photo: Museum of Modern Chinese Literature\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/01\/d9b19f67-de20-41e1-81ae-a9eb719b00de_0118161b.jpg\" title=\"Designs for a qipao Chang sent to Mae-fong Soong in 1956 feature at the exhibition at HKMU\u2019s Museum of Modern Chinese Literature. Photo: Museum of Modern Chinese Literature\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">Designs for a qipao Chang sent to Mae-fong Soong in 1956 feature at the exhibition at HKMU\u2019s Museum of Modern Chinese Literature. Photo: Museum of Modern Chinese Literature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chang\u2019s writing depicts \u201cindividuals navigating the tensions between tradition and modernity, East and West, and personal desires versus societal expectations \u2013 issues that remain profoundly relevant today\u201d, Leung tells the Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3334720\/eileen-chang-exhibition-hong-kong-reveals-woman-behind-chinese-literary-icon?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From correspondence about her short story ideas to worried messages about her deteriorating health to designs for a new qipao she wished to purchase, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2781,107,11539,5730,3569,5077,5231,11540,535,234],"class_list":["post-16440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chang","tag-chinese","tag-eileen","tag-exhibition","tag-hong","tag-icon","tag-kong","tag-literary","tag-reveals","tag-woman","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}