A woman's fight to hail Eileen Chang in the West

Her work has inspired Oscar-winning director Ang Lee and she is considered one of the most important Chinese writers of the 20th century, but Eileen Chang has yet to make a major impact in the West.

Translator Karen S. Kingsbury says she is determined to change that and persuade Western readers to understand why Chang is worthy of their attention through a biography she is working on.

"I am not planning just to write an English version of the already existing biographies in Chinese. I will try to speak to an American audience to explain why Eileen Chang is so worth their attention," says Kingsbury.