Because Of Understanding, There Is Mercy.

If we use one word to summarize Eileen Chang's feelings filled in the fictional world in her novels, it's no doubt that "compassion" is the most appropriate word. Maybe the great writers in the world, without exception, all look on the society, life and human beings with a broad and gloomy mind. While for Eileen Chang, "compassion" is no longer just a point of view and the dominant position—it has been internalized into a spiritual character and feelings of disposition cast in her works. As a writer, Eileen Chang creates work not by fantasy, but by her own life experience, which is not full of frustrations and also not very superficial. Eileen Chang valued her own growing experience, treasured them up in her creating material house and then tried her best to transform them into her novels. Thus, there are no strict limits between Eileen Chang and characters in her novels. From her work, we always feel and taste her personality and soul. Eileen Chang's deep-felt understanding leads to her generous mercy. Her sympathy, on the one hand, includes the tragic understanding of human being, on the other hand, exceeds the tragic understanding by her forgiveness. Eileen Chang is a dreamer awake in turbulent "troubled times". It is because of being awake that she has more "grudge" feelings for the transient pleasure of life, also because of being awake that she feels much compassion for the attachment and commitment of ordinary people to existence. Just as she said to Hu Lancheng: "Because of understanding, there is mercy." Eileen Chang does not look down at all living creatures from the high, but puts herself in them, tries her best to be considerate for them and shows her true grief sympathy for them.