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The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
Bangqing Han
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Description for The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
Paperback. Presents a story of desire and virtue set in the pleasure quarters of nineteenth-century Shanghai. This novel reveals a world populated by lonely souls who seek consolation amid the pleasures and decadence of Shanghai's demimonde. Translator(s): Chang, Eileen; Hung, Eva. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 592 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 786.
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 sentimental nor sensationalistic in its portrayal ... Read more
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 sentimental nor sensationalistic in its portrayal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Series
Weatherhead Books on Asia
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231122696
SKU
V9780231122696
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About Bangqing Han
Han Bangqing (1856-1894) founded China's first literary magazine and is considered one of the most important writers of modern China. Eileen Chang (1920-1995) was a legendary figure in Chinese literature and the author of the essay collection Written on Water (Columbia, 2005) and the novels The Rogue of the North and The Rice-Sprout Song: A Novel of Modern China. ... Read more
Reviews for The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
Its literary and historical significance is indisputable. More important to the average reader, though, [is] its absorbing storytelling.
Lesley Downer New York Times Book Review Accurate and readable. The novel provides a comprehensive and detailed description of a courtesan society... Recommended. Choice [A] richly detailed... colorful cross-section of Chinese society.
H. J. Kirchhoff Globe & Mail This is ... Read more
Lesley Downer New York Times Book Review Accurate and readable. The novel provides a comprehensive and detailed description of a courtesan society... Recommended. Choice [A] richly detailed... colorful cross-section of Chinese society.
H. J. Kirchhoff Globe & Mail This is ... Read more