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Written on Water

Written on Water

Jones, Andrew F.
Jones, Andrew F.
Chang, Eileen

Paperback

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1681375761
ISBN13: 9781681375762
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: May 2 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Now back in print, these witty, insightful ssays on fashion, cinema, wartime, and everyday life demonstrate why Eileen Chang was and is a major icon of twentieth-century Chinese literature.

Eileen Chang is one of the most celebrated modern Chinese novelists and essayists of the twentieth century. First published in 1944, 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 life as a writer and woman in wartime Shanghai and Hong Kong. With her vibrant yet meditative style and her sly, sophisticated humor, Chang writes of friends, colleagues, and teachers turned soldiers or wartime volunteers, and of her own experiences as a part-time nurse. She also turns her thoughts to Chinese cinema, the aims of the writer, Peking Opera, Shanghainese food, culture, and fashion, all the while upending prevalent attitudes toward women and painting the self-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. The book includes illustrations by the author.

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