Love in a fallen city

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321 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2007 by New York Review Books.

ISBN:
978-1-59017-178-3
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OCLC Number:
70199904

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3 stars (1 review)

"Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction - tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these stories combine a contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with a lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City, the first collection in English of this body of work, introduces American readers to the stark vision of a modern master."--BOOK JACKET

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3 stars

Interesting collection of short stories, focusing on Hong Kong before and during the Chinese revolution. My favourite parts of the book was seeing snippets of conservative family values and patriarchy presented from the perspective of upper class, and occasionally working class perspectives. Generally love stories or settling for less stories, some featuring incel like protagonists, others romance.

My favourite story was called sealed off which tells snippets of stories from a bunch of bus riders in the city during rush hour and a romance inspired by a traffic jam.

Definitely I imagine her writings have more depth and meaning to people who live in Hong Kong or the Diaspora, but as an outsider I found it an interesting read.

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  • Zhang, Ailing -- Translations into English