Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in positions of social authority to criminals and ambitious young men recently arrived from the country. Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese fiction, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is now available for the first time in English. Neither sentimental nor sensationalistic in its portrayal of courtesans and their male patrons, Han's work inquires into the moral and psychological consequences of desire. Han, himself a frequent habitue of Shanghai brothels, reveals a world populated by lonely souls who seek consolation amid the pleasures and decadence of Shanghai's demimonde. He describes the romantic games played by sing-song girls to lure men, as well as the tragic consequences faced by those who unexpectedly fall in love with their customers. Han also tells the stories of male patrons who find themselves emotionally trapped between desire and their sense of propriety. First published in 1892, and made into a film by Hou Hsiao-hsien in 1998, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is recognized as a pioneering work of Chinese fiction in its use of psychological realism and its infusion of modernist sensibilities into the traditional genre of courtesan fiction. The novel's stature has grown with the recent discovery of Eileen Chang's previously unknown translation, which was unearthed among her papers at the University of Southern California. Chang, who lived in Shanghai until 1956 when she moved to California and began to write in English, is one of the most acclaimed Chinese writers of the twentieth century.
经胡适先生考证,《海上花列传》是由韩邦庆先生所作,成书时间大概在光绪年间,这个证据来自于韩邦庆的一位老友在若干年后写的一段回忆性的文字。孙玉声先生与韩邦庆曾经相识于招商局海定轮船上,其时《海上花列传》已经成书二十四回,孙玉声还对这部书稿大致提过一些意见。而...
评分经胡适先生考证,《海上花列传》是由韩邦庆先生所作,成书时间大概在光绪年间,这个证据来自于韩邦庆的一位老友在若干年后写的一段回忆性的文字。孙玉声先生与韩邦庆曾经相识于招商局海定轮船上,其时《海上花列传》已经成书二十四回,孙玉声还对这部书稿大致提过一些意见。而...
评分 评分据《谭瀛室随笔》载:《海上花列传》“书中人名,大抵皆有所指,熟于同、光间上海名流事实者,类能言之。兹姑举所知者。”他还给出了自己的臆断: “齐韵叟为沈仲馥,史天然为李木斋,赖头鼋为勒元侠,方蓬壶为袁翔父,一说为王紫诠,李实夫为盛朴人,李鹤汀为盛杏荪,黎...
评分1892年,韩邦庆在其主笔的通俗刊物《海上奇书》上连载了《花国春秋》(后改名为《海上花列传》)为署名“花也怜侬”。1894年刊印石印本,书名即《海上花列传》,在这之后,以上海狭邪故事为题材的长篇小说也大量涌现,用与“上海”有关的字词命名的就有《海上尘天影》、《海上...
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