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出版社:PENGUIN
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ISBN:9780141189369
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作者:EILEEN CHANG
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頁數:321
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出版日期:2007-01-01
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印刷日期:2007-01-01
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包裝:平裝
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開本:32開
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版次:1
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印次:1
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EILEEN Chang was born in 1920 into a China wracked with instability. The new Republic of China, under the nationalist leadership of Sun Yat-sen, had just deposed the last Confucian dynasty in 1911. But while the Qing dynasty had ruled for nearly three hundred years (and Confucian-style governments for two millennia), the Republican government was to be deposed in less than forty years--pushed off the mainland, onto the island of Taiwan, by the Communist revolution. In 1920,however, the chief threat to the fledgling Republic came not from the Communists but from regional warlords who resisted the authority of the central government. Starting in the late I93os, there was also the steady encroachment of the invading Japanese. ...
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The works in this volume show Eileen Chang's brilliance in
the short-story form.Through fascinating evocations of the great
cities of Hong Kong and Shanghai in the ]930s and ]940s, she
provides revealing glimpses of Chinese life - both traditional
and modern - as she depicts a world of concubines and opium
addicts, fast living and family affairs.
In the novella Love in a Fallen City, an unlikely couple find
true romance as bombs fall on Hong Kong during the Second World
War. And in other tales, a schoolgirl is lured into the decadent
world of her disreputable aunt, an awkward student's overpowering
wish for a different father has disastrous consequences, and a
successful businessman reflects on the women he has loved and
lost.
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INTRODUCTION PREFACE TO THE SECOND PRINTING OF ROMANCES ALOESWOOD INCENSE: THE FIRST BRAZIER JASMINE TEA LOVE IN A FALLEN CITY THE GOLDEN CANGUE SEALED OFF RED ROSE, WHITE ROSE NOTES
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