Rumor

Author: Eileen Chang
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Publish Date: 1997-03-01
Features: The desolate atmosphere in Eileen Chang's works also lies in her narrative tone, that unique tone of reminiscence. Reading her works always brings to mind childhood, standing in front of the ancient riverfront wall gate, under the moonlight, listening to the old grandpa telling stories of the past. The storyteller is nostalgic and sorrowful, while the listener is melancholic and dazed. Eileen Chang once said: "Reminiscence is always melancholic. The beauty of the past only makes one feel that everything is already over, while the sorrows of the past only bring back the same sorrows." The main content of this book includes: "After All, She Is a Shanghai Person," "Foreigners Watching Peking Opera and Other Stories," "Changing Gowns," "The of Apartment Life," "Seeing the Way with One's Eyes," "It Is Necessary to Rectify Names," "Remains of a Record," "On Women," "Go! Go Up to the Building!" "A Girl in the Same Car," "Love," "Childish Words," "Creating People," "Hitting People," "On Carrots," "Whispers," "Poetry and Nonsense," "What to Write," "Yan Ying's Quotations," "On Dancing," "On Music," "My Own Writings," "The Trumpet of Night Camp," "Borrowing Silver Lamps," "Silver Palace Learning Records," "Unpublished Manuscripts," "Under the Umbrella," "On Painting.