Apolitical or Political: Idealistic Love Pursuits Through the Expression of Individualism and Aestheticism in Eileen Chang's 張愛玲 アイリーン・チャン Love in a Fallen City (傾城之戀)

In 2020, The University of Hong Kong 香港大学 celebrated the centennial birth of its alumni Eileen Chang 張愛玲 アイリーン・チャン with materials from the HKU Archives. In 2022, a new translation of Eileen Chang’s 張愛玲 アイリーン・チャン story “Xiang Jian Huan” was discovered from the Ailing Zhang 張愛玲 アイリーン・チャン papers of USC Libraries’s Special Collection. Echoing recent discoveries in the Eileen Chang 張愛玲 アイリーン・チャン Studies, this project ponders upon the motif of politics and adventure fiction within the cultural landscape of Hong Kong. Re-assessing the role of war in historicity, this paper hopes to contribute to new understandings in Hong Kong Studies.