Death in Shanghai

Author: Hongying
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Can a woman change history in just twelve days? Hongying creates another legend of old Shanghai's prosperity and decline. A love-hate story between a female star and a female spy, with a layered, pressing truth that challenges the reader's intellect and emotions. In the autumn and winter of 1941, China's lonely resistance to the war had lasted four years, while the European war had reached an urgent point. Shanghai, the isolated island, was like a paradise. Director Tan Na decided to stage a romantic love drama titled Fox Step Shanghai, inviting the famous actress Yu Jin, who was staying in Hong Kong, to perform in Shanghai. Yu Jin agreed, but she had her own multiple purposes. She checked into the International Hotel and engaged in a race against time in an intelligence war with the Allies, the Japanese army, the government, and other intelligence personnel. When Yu Jin finally obtained the key intelligence—the target of the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet's surprise attack—she faced a lifelong troubling dilemma. Whom was her loyalty truly with? She made a resolute decision, and when the gunshots rang out, death did not spare any of the characters in the book, but history had turned a decisive bend. This is China's "hotel novel" and one of the few international spy novels in China. The novel's language immerses itself in a unique atmosphere, sometimes leisurely like a dance hall, sometimes tense like a battle situation, with ups and downs that soften the harsh and are considered a new peak in Hongying's creative career.