Anyi Wang

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

A Novel of Shanghai
Übersetzer: Berry, Michael; Egan, Susan Chan

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Produktbeschreibung

Wang Qiyao is a young girl infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood. After being discovered by an amateur photographer, Wang Qiyao competes in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant of 1946 and wins the title of second runner-up. This fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of Wang Qiyao's life.

Produktdetails

• Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 164mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780231143424
• ISBN-10: 0231143427
• Artikelnr.: 23435782

Autorenporträt

Wang Anyi began her career as a writer in 1978. Her books in English include Lapse of Time, Love in a Small Town, Love on a Barren Mountain, Brocade Valley, and the novel Baotown, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year award. She currently lives in Shanghai and is a professor of Chinese literature at Fudan University. Michael Berry is associate professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the translator of several novels and the author of Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy, A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film, and Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers. Susan Chan Egan, an independent scholar, is the author of A Latterday Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung 1893-1980 and coauthor of A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams.