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Title
Little reunions

Author
Ailing Zhang

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
New York Review Books

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20180116

Description

A best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, and political intrigue during World War II in China.

Now available in English for the first time, Eileen Chang's dark romance opens with Julie, living at a convent school in Hong Kong on the eve of the Japanese invasion. Her mother, Rachel, long divorced from Julie's opium-addict father, saunters around the world with various lovers. Recollections of Julie's horrifying but privileged childhood in Shanghai clash with a flamboyant, sometimes incestuous cast of relations that crowd her life. Eventually, back in Shanghai, she meets the magnetic Chih-yung, a traitor who collaborates with the Japanese puppet regime. Soon they're in the throes of an impassioned love affair that swings back and forth between ardor and anxiety, secrecy and ruin. Like Julie's relationship with her mother, her marriage to Chih-yung is marked by long stretches of separation interspersed with unexpected little reunions. Chang's emotionally fraught, bitterly humorous novel holds a fractured mirror directly in front of her own heart.

Eileen Chang (1920-1995)
was born into an aristocratic family in Shanghai. Her father, deeply
traditional in his ways, was an opium addict; her mother, partly
educated in England, was a sophisticated woman of cosmopolitan tastes.
Their unhappy marriage ended in divorce, and Chang eventually ran away
from her father-who had beaten her for defying her stepmother, then
locked
her in her room for nearly half a year. Chang studied literature at the
University of Hong Kong, but the Japanese attack on the city in 1941
forced her to return to occupied Shanghai, where she was able to publish
the stories and essays (collected in two volumes, Romances, 1944, and Written on Water,
1945) that soon made her a literary star. In 1944 Chang married Hu
Lancheng, a Japanese sympathizer whose sexual infidelities led to their
divorce three years later. The rise of Communist influence made it
increasingly difficult for Chang to continue living in Shanghai; she
moved to Hong Kong in 1952, then immigrated to the United States three
years later. She remarried (an American, Ferdinand Reyher, who died in
1967) and held various posts as a writer in residence; in 1969 she
obtained a more permanent position as a researcher at Berkeley. Two
novels, both commissioned in the 1950s by the United States Information
Service as anti-Communist propaganda, The Rice Sprout Song and Naked Earth (the latter now available as an NYRB Classic), were followed by a third, The Rouge of the North (1967), which expanded on her celebrated early novella "The Golden
Cangue." Chang continued writing essays and stories in Chinese as well
scripts for Hong Kong films, and began work on an English translation of
the famous Qing novel The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai. In
spite of the tremendous revival of interest in her work that began in
Taiwan and Hong Kong in the 1970s, and that later spread to mainland
China, Chang became ever more reclusive as she grew older. Eileen Chang
was found dead in her Los Angeles apartment in September 1995. In 2006,
NYRB Classics published Love in a Fallen City, an original collection of her short fiction. The following year, Lust, Caution, a film adaptation of Chang's 1979 novella, directed by Ang Lee, was released.

Jane Weizhen Pan has collaborated with Martin Merz on translations of many works by
contemporary Chinese writers. She first encountered Eileen Chang's work
as a high-school student in China and has been a devoted reader of her
writing since. She is based in Melbourne, Australia, where her research
focuses on early Chinese translations of English classics.

Martin Merz studied Chinese at Melbourne University and later received an MA in
applied translation in Hong Kong. He moved to Asia in 1980 and has
worked in greater China ever since. In addition to his co-translations
with Jane Weizhen Pan, he translated the modern Peking opera Mulian Rescues His Mother, which was performed at the Hong Kong Fringe in the early 1990s.

Type
BOOK

Edition
Paperback original

Keyword Index
World War, 1939-1945 - China - Fiction.|Autobiographical fiction.

Country of Publication
New York (State)

Number of Pages
352

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