The Complete Works of Eileen Chang 03 - Half a Lifelong Love

Author: Eileen Chang
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Edited and supplemented by Professor Chen Zishan, an international authority on Eileen Chang, restoring the original works. The only legally authorized sales of the simplified Chinese edition. For the first time, the original works of Eileen Chang are fully restored. Eileen Chang's long, published in the late 1960s, has been adapted into films, TV dramas, stage plays, and musicals many times. A tragic love story set in 1930s Shanghai. The female protagonist, Gu Manzhen, comes from a poor family and loses her father at a young age. The seven of them rely on her older sister, Manlu, who works as a dancer to support them. After graduation, Manzhen works at a company and falls in love with Xu Shijun from Nanjing. Shijun deeply sympathizes with Manzhen's situation and decides to marry her. Manlu finally marries someone too, and her husband, Zhu Hongcai, is a nouveau riche. Upon learning that Manlu cannot bear children, he grows resentful. Manlu hatches a cruel plan to tie Zhu to her. In the hands of the genius writer Eileen Chang, eighteen years pass in the blink of an eye. Manzhen and Shijun meet again in Shanghai, but time has changed, and the green trees have long grown into shade.