The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
A Novel of Shanghai
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of 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. After the Communist victory, Wang Qiyao continues to indulge in the decadent pleasures of the Shanghai bourgeoisie, secretly playing mahjong during the antirightist campaign and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. She reemerges in the 1980s as a purveyor of old Shanghai, only to b…
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Weitere Autoren: Berry, Michael (Book Review Editor, Modern Chinese Literature & Culture) (Übers.) / Egan, Susan Chan (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-14342-4
- EAN: 9780231143424
- Produktnummer: 16332823
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 456 S.
- Masse: H29.1 cm x B23.7 cm x D3.4 cm 748 g
- Gewicht: 748
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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