03240cam a2200373 i 4500 339184863 TxAuBib 20180314120000.0 060626s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006021075 9781590171783 15.95 1590171780 15.95 TxAuBib rda eng chi Zhang, Ailing, 1920-1955. Qing cheng zhi lian English. Love in a fallen city [BOOK] / Eileen Chang ; translated by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang. New York : New York Review Books, 2007. xvii, 321 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier New York review books classics Collects six tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Aloeswood incense: the first brazier -- Jasmine tea -- Love in a fallen city -- The golden cangue -- Sealed off -- Red rose, white rose. Eileen Chang was born in China and died in Los Angeles, living most of her life as an obscure, impoverished, and reclusive exile. She ran away from a troubled family to lead the bohemian life of a writer, and in the late Thirties and Forties her stories about Shanghai and Hong Kong transformed Chinese literature. Chang said her goal was to describe "the little things that happen between men and women," and she did this in a way that was at once subtle, up-to-date, psychologically fraught, unsentimental, and full of richly suggestive imagery. She is now recognized as one of China's great writers not only by a few critics and academics, but by a vast and passionate public. Love in a Fallen City is the first English-language publication to present a full selection of this haunting writer's novellas, the heart of her achievement. These are stories of seduction and betrayal, hypocrisy, cruelty, and frustration: a girl falls for a cad who she knows does not love her; a young man is driven to an act of terrible and yet futile violence by his father's abuse and his own dark desires; a woman draws on the ever-diminishing credit of her good reputation in an attempt to snare an indifferent man; a couple's accidental meeting in a besieged city leads to the discovery that true love is a matter of expediency, not passion. "The Story of the Golden Cangue," here in Eileen Chang's own celebrated translation, offers a portrait of an aggrieved wife whose relentless pursuit of vengeance--on her husband, her children, and above all herself--turns her into one of the most terrifying and pitiful monsters in modern fiction. 20180314. Translated from the Chinese. Though the authority of the authors name is recorded as Ailing Zhang, our call number matches the authors anglicized name (Eileen Chang) since it is what is printed on the cover to avoid confusion. Zhang, Ailing Translations into English. Short stories. Kingsbury, Karen, 1963- New York review books classics.