With the reissue of "The Rouge of the North" and "The Rice Sprout Song", readers will have the opportunity to appreciate Eileen Chang's elegant prose style, her harrowing analyses of human motives, and her keen understanding of desire, loneliness, and hunger, both physical and metaphysical. "Eileen Chang beautifully and movingly evokes 20th-century China and the hearts and minds of Chinese women".--Jung Chang, author of "Wild Swans".