Here (Eileen Chang's City Map)

Author: Chunzi
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: Shanghai is a city unlike any other; it is not Paris, not Dublin, and it is not famous for literature. Yet literature is indeed an important cultural landscape of this city. In this landscape, Eileen Chang stands as a tree, pure and ethereal. The relationship between the city and literature has always been an unavoidable topic for literary historians. The city influences literature, and literature reflects the city. Together, they intertwine like vines, creating urban literature. Exploring this relationship is like archaeology—discovering, imagining, judging. The words here tell the encounter between a woman and a city, a map of the city.