Description: "This new collection of work by ... Eileen Chang includes previously untranslated stories and essays from throughout her career, starting with her ... debut in 1940s Shanghai and continuing through the trials of her Cold War migration to Hong Kong and the U.S. East Coast and her last years as a bus-riding flaneuse on the highways and byways in Los Angeles. 'Classmates Then All Successful Now,' one of Chang's finest stories, reprises the whole journey through multiple, sometimes nested time frames, while in 'Flowers Adrift, Blossoms Afloat,' a young woman peers into the darkness of a covered bridge that crosses between her Chinese homeland and British Hong Kong and sees a 'time travel tunnel'"
Review Quotes: "Before Joan Didion, there was Eileen Chang. A slender, dramatic woman with a taste for livid details and feverish colors, Chang combined Didion's glamor and sensibility with the terrific wit of Evelyn Waugh. She could, with a single phrase, take you hostage." --Jamie Fisher, The Millions
"[Time Tunnel] reaffirms Eileen Chang's place as one of the 20th century's finest writers . . . These stories showcase Chang's enduring ability to illuminate the inner lives of people dislocated by vast historic and cultural shifts. . . We owe a debt of thanks to Karen S. Kingsbury and Jie Zhang, not only for translating these remarkable stories into English, but for proving that with Eileen Chang, there are no marginal texts, only hidden gems." --Megan Walsh, China Books Review "Eileen Chang is the fallen angel of Chinese literature." --Ang Lee "Eileen Chang is twentieth-century China's supreme writer of bourgeois desolation with an existential edge." --Karen S. Kingsbury, Electric Literature