Description: Written on Water, Paperback by Chang, Eileen; Jones, Andrew F. (TRN); Huang, Nicole (EDT), ISBN 1681375761, ISBN-13 9781681375762, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 teachersturned 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"--
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Original Language: Chinese
Book Title: Written on Water
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: Asian / Chinese, Women Authors, Essays, Linguistics / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 10 oz
Author: Eileen Chang
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
