The Fall of the Pagoda

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Eileen Chang
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Hong Kong University Press 2010-04-15 Paperback 9789888028368

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The Fall of the Pagoda, the first of two semi-autobiographical novels written originally by Eileen Chang in English, depicts in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, while The Book of Change revolves around her wartime student days in Hong Kong. The Fall of the Pagoda introduces a young girl (called Lute) growing up amid many family entanglements with her divorced mother and spinster aunt during the 1930s in Shanghai’s International Settlement. Both novels shed light on the construction of selfhood in Chang’s other novels, through lengthy discussions of Chang’s difficult relationship with her selfishly demanding mother as well as of intricate dynamics in the extended families who emerged from aristocratic households of the late Qing Dynasty. While the main characters belong to the new Republican period, their worldviews and everyday life are still haunted by the shadows of the past.

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in chinese mainland. She was the most popular writer in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II, with English and Chinese stories focusing on human frailties rather than nationalist propaganda. For her non-committal politics and idiosyncrasies, she was boycotted by fellow writers after the war and forced to the margins of literary respectability.

"The Fall of the Pagoda begins as a comedy of manners and gradually evolves into a gothic thriller… Contradictions and aberrations are the norm in Lute’s family. This is a household immersed in a decaying grandeur amid the intoxicating smell of opium, but it never hesitates to pursue new and exotic things from automobiles to movies. Desolation and decadence rule. Lute’s father indulges himself in debauchery while her mother could not wait to become a Nora of New China. Nevertheless, both share the disposition to squander family fortune ruthlessly; children are their last concern. The Russian Revolution, the creation of Manchukuo, and the Second Sino-Japanese War take place one after another in the novel, but except for momentary disturbances, nothing affects the family which is already engulfed by its own corruption." — From the Introduction by David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in chinese mainland. These previously unpublished, semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the construction of selfhood in her other novels.

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##不得不說愛玲的英文真是蠻晦澀的。

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關於迴憶,張愛玲的自傳體小說《小團圓》裏有這麼一段話: “迴憶不管是愉快還是不愉快的,都有一種悲哀,雖然淡,她怕那滋味。她從來不自找傷感,實生活裏有的是,不可避免的。但是光就這麼想瞭想,就像站在個古建築物門口往裏張瞭張,在月光與黑影中斷瓦頹垣韆門萬戶,一瞥間...  

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##邊看邊學英語

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##翻譯非常好,簡直想不到原文是英文。難怪張愛玲要說華美的袍上麵都是虱子,傢庭實在太壓抑瞭,難怪張那麼愛紅樓,她自己的傢也差不多類似,簪纓大傢,不肖子弟,三四代後,內裏也盡上來瞭。一切都是錢的矛盾,父母各自提防,生怕多花瞭自己的錢,不但賬單,連孩子的培養教育費...  

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