Editing Eileen Chang (section)

=== Death ===
On September 8, 1995, Chang was found dead in her apartment on Rochester Avenue in [[Westwood, Los Angeles]], by her [[landlord]].<ref name="TNYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/13/obituaries/eileen-chang-74-chinese-writer-revered-outside-the-mainland.html|title=Eileen Chang, 74, Chinese Writer Revered Outside the Mainland|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=March 27, 2019|author=Robert McG. Thomas Jr.|date=September 13, 1995 }}</ref> According to her friends, Chang had died of natural causes several days before her building manager discovered her body, after becoming alarmed that she had not answered her telephone. Her [[death certificate]] states that she died from [[cardiovascular disease]].<ref name="TNYT"/> In accordance with Chang's will, she was [[Cremation|cremated]] without any memorial service, and her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.

After Chang's death, Stephen Soong (宋淇; 1919–1996) became the executor of her estate, succeeded by his son Roland Soong (宋以朗).<ref name="auto">{{Cite journal|last=LEE|first=Christopher|date=2017-01-01|title=Translation in distraction : on Eileen Chang's "Chinese translation: a vehicle of cultural influence"|url=https://commons.ln.edu.hk/jmlc/vol14/iss1/3|journal=Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報|volume=14|issue=1|issn=1026-5120}}</ref> In 1997, the Soong family donated some of Chang's manuscripts to the East Asian Library at the [[University of Southern California|University of Southern California]], including the English translation of "The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai" and the unfinished manuscript of the novel "The Young Marshall."<ref name="auto" /> In 2015, Roland Soong handed Eileen Chang's manuscripts to Hong Kong scholar Rosanna Fong (馮睎乾) for organization and research.