Chinese author Eileen Chang’s manuscript of bitter wartime love story with Japanese sympathiser goes on display after 40 years

Copies of one of renowned Chinese author Eileen Chang’s manuscripts will be shown to the public 40 years after she completed a popular work depicting her love affairs, mainland media reports.

More than 600 pages of the autobiographical novel’s manuscript will be on display in six mainland cities including Shanghai, Hangzhou and Guangzhou starting from Saturday, the news portal Thepaper.cn reported.

The novel Xiao Tuan Yuan, or “Little Reunion”, depicts Chang’s life in Hong Kong as well as her bitter love story with Hu Lancheng, a Japanese sympathiser during the second world war.

Chang studied English literature at the University of Hong Kong, but did not earn her degree because of the Japanese invasion of the city.