Eileen Chang’s Sea Burial and Special Collection at USC East Asian Library

Thursday, January 17, 2019

4 p.m. 5:30 p.m.

USC Doheny Library, Room 241


One of the most influential modern Chinese writers and the author of Lust, Caution, Eileen Chang passed away in Los Angeles in 1995. After her death, Dominic Cheung, Professor Emeritus at USC, took care of her sea burial in San Pedro and set up the Eileen Chang Special Collection in the USC East Asian Library in 1997. Cheung will discuss these experiences as a part of the lecture series titled Los Angeles and Shanghai: The USC Nexus.

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