The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in positions of social authority to criminals and ambitious young men recently arrived from the country. Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese fiction, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is now available for the first time in English. Neither sentimenta…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Chang, Eileen (Übers.) / Hung, Eva (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-12268-9
- EAN: 9780231122689
- Produktnummer: 19363383
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 935 g
- Gewicht: 935
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Han Bangqing. Translated by Eileen Chang and Eva Hung
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