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St. Mary's Hall ( Chinese: 聖瑪利亞女中) was a Christian school that existed in Shanghai, China, established by the Episcopal Church of the United States . History. General Plan of St. Mary's Hall. The history of St. Mary's Hall, Shanghai goes back to a training school that was started in 1851 near the Episcopal Cathedral in Shanghai.
Aug 1, 2022 · St. Mary's Hall, Shanghai. girls' school in Shanghai related to St. John's University, Shanghai and St. John's University. Upload media. Wikipedia. Instance of. Christian school. girls' school. Named after.
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Childhood and youth
Chang was born Zhang Ying (張煐) in Shanghai, China on September 30, 1920. She was the first child of Zhang Zhiyi (張志沂; 1896–1953) and Huang Suqiong (黃素瓊; 1893–1957). Chang's maternal great-grandfather, Huang Yisheng (黃翼升; 1818–1894), was a prominent naval commander. Chang's paternal grandfather, Zhang Peilun (1848–1903) married Li Ju'ou (李菊耦; 1866–1916) and was son-in-law to Li Hongzhang, an influential Qing court official. She also spent her childhood with paternal aunt Zhang Maoyuan (張茂淵; 18...
Education
Chang started school at age 4. Chang had obtained excellent English skills besides her native Chinese. In 1937, she graduated from an all-female Christian boarding high school, St. Mary's Hall, Shanghai, even though her family was not religious. At an early age, under her mother's influence, Chang began painting, playing piano, and learning English. In 1939, Chang was accepted to the University of London on a full scholarship, but was unable to attend due to World War II. Instead, she studied...
Marriages
In 1943, Chang met her first husband Hu Lancheng when she was 23 and he was 37. They married the following year in a private ceremony. Fatima Mohideen was the sole attendee. In the few months that he courted Chang, Hu was still married to his third wife. Although Hu was labelled a traitor for collaborating with the Japanese during World War II, Chang continued to remain loyal to Hu. Shortly thereafter, Hu chose to move to Wuhan to work for a newspaper. While staying at a local hospital, he se...
Shanghai
At the age of 10, Chang's mother renamed her as Aìlíng, a transliteration of Eileen, in preparation for her entrance into an English school. While in high school, Chang read Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the Four Great Classical Novelsof Chinese literature, which influenced her work throughout her career. Chang displayed great literary talent and her writings were published in the school magazine. The following year, she wrote her debut short novel at the age of 12. Chang's writing is heav...
Hong Kong
In 1945, Chang's reputation waned due to postwar cultural and political turmoil. It worsened after the defeat of the Nationalist government by the Communists in the Chinse Civil War. Eventually, Chang left mainland China for Hong Kong in 1952, realizing her writing career in Shanghai was over. In Hong Kong, she worked for the United States Information Service (USIS), which promoted United States interests overseas. During this time, she wrote two anti-communist works,The Rice-Sprout Song (Yan...
United States
In 1955, Chang moved to America, struggling to become an English writer. Her work was rejected by publishers many times.Chang's move from Hong Kong to the U.S. in the 1950s marked an important turning point in Chang's literary career. In 1960s, Chang was constantly searching for new job opportunities, particularly ones that involved translating or writing screenplays. Chang once tried to adapt a screenplay for Hollywood with Chinese elements, but was unsuccessful because the agent thought the...
Chang was a realist and modernist writer.Her most important contribution was her construction of a unique wartime narrative, one that deviated from the grand accounts of national salvation and revolution. She sought to recount the seemingly irrelevant details and experiences of daily life of ordinary men and women in periods of social change and vi...
Eileen Chang's works are often adapted for screens. The best known is probably Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution (2007), based on her novella of the same name, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Tang Wei. The film won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival and Golden Horse Award for best film in 2007. Other film adaptations include Love in a Fa...
Little Reunions(2018; trans. by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan).The following scripts were penned by Chang: 1. Bu Liao Qing (1947) (不了情, Unending Love, modified from novel 多少恨, published as movie script) 2. Tai Tai Wan Sui (1947) (太太萬歲, Long Live the Missus!) 3. Ai le zhongnian (1949) (哀樂中年, The Sorrows and Joys of Middle Age) 4. Jin Suo Ji (1950) (金鎖記, The Golden Cangue) 5. Qing Chang Ru Zhan Chang (1957) (情場如...
Zhang Ailing. A Portrait by Kong Kai Mingat Portrait Gallery of Chinese Writers (Hong Kong Baptist University Library).
Love Everlasting (Buliao qing) (Sang Hu, dir., 1947)with English subtitles - Film based on Eileen Chang's first screenplayLong Live the Missus! (Taitai wansui) (Sang Hu, dir., 1947)with English subtitles - Film based on Eileen Chang's second screenplayFull translation of Long Live the Missus! (1947)- MCLC Resource Center PublicationsThe Beginnings: A Radical Idea. In 1892, missionary Young John Allen and Laura Haygood of the Southern Methodist Mission, set up the McTyeire School for Chinese girls in Shanghai. Both natives of Georgia, Allen and Haywood were strong advocates for education – Allen had also founded the Anglo-Chinese College in Hongkou in 1885 – and an ...
St. Mary's Hall was a Christian school that existed in Shanghai, China, established by the Episcopal Church of the United States. History. The history of St. Mary's Hall, Shanghai goes back to a training school that was started in 1851 near the Episcopal Cathedral in Shanghai.
Oct 16, 2018 · The changing face of women’s education in China: A critical history of St. Mary’s Hall, McTyeire School and Shanghai No. 3 Girls’ Middle School. Xiaoyan Liu. Zürich, Switzerland: LIT Verlag, 2017. 366 pp., (paperback), CHF 39.90, ISBN: 978-643-90817-9.
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