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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Zhang, Ailing, author, illustrator.
Uniform title:	Liuyan. English
Imprint:	New York : New York Review Books, 2023. ©2023
Description:	vii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New York Review Books classics
Subject:	Zhang, Ailing -- Translations into English. Essays.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13339633

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Other authors / contributors:	Jones, Andrew F., translator, editor. Huang, Xincun, 1967- editor, writer of afterword.
ISBN:	9781681375762 1681375761 9781681375779
Notes:	Originally published in Chinese by Crown Publishing Company Ltd., Taiwan.
Summary:	"Eileen Chang is one of the most celebrated and influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural critics of the twentieth century. First published in 1945, and just as beloved as her fiction in the Chinese-speaking world, Written on Water collects Chang's reflections on art, literature, war, urban culture, and her own life as a writer and woman, set amidst the sights and sounds of wartime Shanghai and Hong Kong. In a style at once meditative and vibrant, Chang writes of friends, colleagues, and teachers turned soldiers or wartime volunteers, and her own experiences as a part-time nurse. She also reflects on Chinese cinema, the aims of the writer, and the popularity of the Peking Opera. Chang engages the reader with her sly and sophisticated humor, conversational voice, and intense fascination with the subtleties of everyday lie. In her examination of Shanghai food, culture, and fashions, she not only reveals, but also upends prevalent attitudes toward women, presenting a portrait of a daring and cosmopolitan woman bent on questioning pieties and enjoying the pleasures of modernity, even as the world convulses in war and a revolution looms"--
Other form:	Online version: Chang, Eileen, 1920- Written on water New York : New York Review Books, 2023. 9781681375779

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Call Number:	PL2837.E35L58613 2023
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