Shen Congwen
C. T. Hsia was particularly adept at rediscovering and showcasing marginalized writers like Shen Congwen, Qian Zhongshu, or Eileen Chang. On the later, he writes: “to the discerning student of modern Chinese literature, Eileen Chang is not only the best and most important writer in Chinese today; her short stories alone invite valid comparisons with, and in some respects claim superiority over, the work of serious modern women writers in English Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers.” Although Eileen Chang’s success was immediate in the Chinese-speaking world, it was not until the 1960s and the publication of C. T. Hsia’s "A History of Modern Chinese Fiction", that she became famous in the Western world. Karen S. Kingsbury thus notes: