Gazing at Taiwan and Hong Kong on a diaspora trail

In the early 1960s, Eileen Chang, a famous modern Chinese female writer, compiled her travel notes into a chronicle in English titled A Return to the Frontier . Intriguingly, another highly related essay A Revisit to the Frontier was found recently, which was rewritten quite differently in Chinese rather than merely translated from the aforementioned English version in the early 1980s. Why were Taiwan and Hong Kong referred to as “Frontiers”? How did Chang rewrite her travel memory after about two decades? Is there anything more to conceal in the bilingual essays aside from Chang&s;s own preference? This study will address and further explore the changeable positions in Chang&s;s long-term bilingual frontier writings which perfectly reprocessed the core topics of Sinophone studies.