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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi (Hardback, 2008)
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- DescriptionSet in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of her life. During the next four decades, Wang Qiyao indulges in the decadent pleasures of pre-liberation Shanghai, secretly playing mahjong during the antirightist Movement and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Surviving the vicissitudes of modern Chinese history, Wang Qiyao emerges in the 1980s as a purveyor of old Shanghai --a living incarnation of a new, commodified stalgia that prizes splendor and sophistication--only to become embroiled in a tragedy that echoes the pulpy Hollywood irs of her youth. From the violent persecution of communism to the liberalism and openness of the age of reform, this sorrowful tale of old China versus new, of perseverance in the face of adversity, is a timeless rendering of our never-ending quest for transformation and beauty.
- Author BiographyWang Anyi began her career as a writer in 1978. Her books in English include Lapse of Time, Love in a Small Town, Love on a Barren Mountain, Brocade Valley, and the novel Baotown, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year award. She currently lives in Shanghai and is a professor of Chinese literature at Fudan University.Michael Berry is associate professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the translator of several novels and the author of Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy, A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film, and Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers.Susan Chan Egan, an independent scholar, is the author of A Latterday Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung 1893-1980 and coauthor of A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams.
Key Features
- Author(s)Wang Anyi
- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Date of Publication30/01/2008
- LanguageEnglish
- FormatHardback
- ISBN-100231143427
- ISBN-139780231143424
- SubjectGeneral & Literary Fiction
- Series TitleWeatherhead Books on Asia
Publication Data
- Place of PublicationNew York
- Country of PublicationUnited States
- ImprintColumbia University Press
Dimensions
- Weight726 g
- Width152 mm
- Height228 mm
- Spine33 mm
Credits
- Translated byMichael Berry,Susan Chan Egan
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