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Book Description:
The form of "Love in a Fallen City" is that of a novelette (a short novel.) The story takes place first in Shanghai, then Hong Kong. At first glimpse it looks like a story of the heroine Liusu's struggles with her family ties, but when story moves to her travel to Hong Kong with the Hsu family to meet Liuyuan again, the reader realizes it's a love story. Like many of Eileen Chang's stories, this love story includes some sort of love triangle.
The story is set in the year 1941 when the Japanese attacked and then occupied Hong Kong. There are both Western and traditional Chinese influences in the story. The Western influence appears in the form of Liuyuan, while the traditional Chinese influence is symbolized by Liusu. It is also shown through her family and their desire to marry all their daughters off. The balance between mixing two cultures allows many things to happen in the story that would not happen in other more traditional short stories.
中文簡介：
《傾城之戀》是寫一對精明過份的男女是如何在愛情上錙珠必較，功利全局，最后卻因香港的淪陷而成全了那份世故的婚姻。這是一部香港式的“傳奇”故事，卻深刻地反映出亂世中的人情全然沒有些許純真，使人性得到穩定和規范的竟是險而又險的“傳奇”力量，這部小說對人性冷漠的描寫令人震懾，仿佛出自一個飽經滄桑的大家之手，其藝術之圓熟，語言之精美堪稱中國現代愛情小說中的經典之作。
About Author:
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life.
Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature.
張愛玲(1920.9.3-1995.9.8)原名張煐。原籍河北豐潤，生于上海。童年在北京、天津度過，1929年遷回上海。1930改名張愛玲。她的主要作品有小說集《傳奇》和散文集《流言》，隨后，又寫有中篇小說《小艾》、長篇小說《十八春》、《秧歌》、《赤地之戀》、《怨女》和評論集《紅樓夢魘》等。
她的創作大多取材于上海、香港的上層社會，社會內容不夠寬廣，卻開拓了現代文學的題材領域。這些作品，既以中國古典小說為根柢，又突出運用了西方現代派心理描寫技巧，并將兩者融合于一體，形成頗具特色的個人風格。
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