Eileen Chang & Su Qing: The Best Novels

Author: Shen Xiaolan, edited by Yu Qing
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Publish Date: 2001-02-01
Features: Half a century ago, during the time Shanghai became a "," the lives of its citizens were filled with sorrow. Yet, the names of two "talented women" of Shanghai—Eileen Chang and Su Qing—became household words. Eileen Chang was a female writer with a strong sense of legend, while Su Qing was known for her controversial "boldness." Eileen Chang's writing is also like her title: "Incense Burner"—Incense; You seem to be sitting in an old house from the late Qing Dynasty at sunset, amidst swirling smoke, listening as the author details the rumors and joys and sorrows of the red men and green women on the Shanghai International Settlement. This novel collection gathers the representative works of the two female writers during their peak creative periods, such as Eileen Chang's The Golden Cangue, Love in a Fallen City; Su Qing's The Moth, Ten Years of Marriage, Beauty on the Wrong Path, and more. It basically reflects the of the two female writers' novel writing.