He wrote a novel about resentful, unmarried women.
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Eileen Chang's 1966 novel 《怨女》 (translated as 'The Rouge of the North') made the word famous in modern literature — it tells the story of a woman trapped in a loveless marriage to a wealthy invalid.
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Literary; pairs with 旷夫 (kuàngfū, 'unmarried man past his prime') in classical writing.
