Issue elle-même de la bourgeoise de Shanghai et s'inspirant largement des personnalités qu'elle y côtoyait, Eileen Chang (1920-1995) a été reconnue dès son plus jeune âge comme un auteur majeur de la littérature chinoise contemporaine par la critique de son pays. Son univers singulier a séduit le réalisateur taïwanais Ang Lee (Le Secret de Brokeback Mountain).

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in chinese mainland. These previously unpublished, semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the construction of selfhood in her other novels.

短篇小說集之二。收錄八個短篇小說及一篇散文。張愛玲說其中〈茉莉香片〉、〈第一爐香〉、〈第二爐香〉、〈心經〉、〈琉璃瓦〉、〈封鎖〉是寫給上海人的香港傳奇。 這是她創作的高峰期，尤其〈第一爐香〉中把上流社會的算計及刻薄、女人的小心眼及愛情觀寫得淋漓盡致，充分展露出張愛玲靈巧的心思，與獨一無二的驚世才華！

Now a major motion picture from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II. In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the resistance, and Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure who works for the Japanese occupational government. As these two move deftly between Shanghai’s tea parties and secret interrogations, they become embroiled in the complicated politics of wartime — and in a mutual attraction that may be more than what they expected. Written in lush, lavish prose, and with the tension of a political thriller, Lust, Caution brings 1940s Shanghai artfully to life even as it limns the erotic pulse of a doomed love affair.

从某种角度来说，可以认为《同学少年都不贱》=《浮花浪蕊》+《相见欢》。 　　近于《浮花浪蕊》的地方是，叙述主角的声音一直清晰可闻。赵珏的主体意识贯穿始终，一如《浮花浪蕊》里的洛贞，虽然小说是以第三人称来写，但读者却分明感到，这几乎就是第一人称。比较起来，《相见欢》中苑梅的主体意识是在情节进展了一半的时候才慢慢凸显出来的，是一个“慢热”的过程。 　　近于《相见欢》的地方，首先在情节上，都是两位女性朋友多年后的聚谈。不过，《相见欢》的气氛更疏离、更隐秘，而《同学少年都不贱》则相对热烈、明朗。