Written on Water

Eileen Chang (1920-1995), who lived in the United States after fleeing Communist China in 1956, was a prominent fiction writer, essayist, and public intellectual. She is the author of Romances, The Rice-Sprout Song: A Novel of Modern China, and The Rouge of the North.Andrew F. Jones is associate professor of Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Ageand Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music, and the translator of Yu Hua's Chronicle of a Blood Merchant.Zhang, Ailing is the author of 'Written on Water', published 2005 under ISBN 9780231131391 and ISBN 0231131399.