基本信息·出版社：Faber and Faber ·页码：358 页 ·出版日期：2004年05月 ·ISBN：0571218113 ·条形码：9780571218110 ·装帧：平装 ·正文语种：英语 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Faber and Faber
·页码：358 页
·出版日期：2004年05月
·ISBN：0571218113
·条形码：9780571218110
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing -- when Japanese troops invaded the historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes -- Nanjing 1937 is a tender and humorous story of an impossible love and a lively, detailed historical portrait of a culture on the verge of rupture.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 作者简介 Ye Zhaoyan is one of the most popular and prolific writers in the People's Republic of China. He lives in Nanjing.
Michael Berry is a doctoral candidate in modern Chinese literature at Columbia University and is the translator of Wild Kids: Two Novels About Growing Up by Chang Ta-chun (Columbia, 2000) and the forthcoming novel To Live by Yu Hua.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly Enormously popular in China, this winning, witty English-language debut by Ye (author of more than 30 books in his native country) traces the unlikely romance between a womanizing professor and the much younger wife of a fighter pilot on the eve of the catastrophic Japanese invasion of Nanjing. Ding Wenyu has been known to storm out of class if there aren't enough pretty girls to teach. He's legendary among his students for his brothel slang and clowning. Outside the classroom, the intemperate Ding bemoans his disintegrating marriage while recklessly seducing countless other women. He's perpetually drunk and despondent until, at the wedding of one of his colleague's daughters, he falls madly in love-with the bride. Ding discomfits the young Ren Yuyuan with his lovestruck stares. After the wedding, he sends Ren daily love letters and bides his time as her relationship with her solemn, philandering husband slowly unravels. Bitter and lonely, Ren finds Ding's attentions newly intriguing. Ding, for his part, feels his lifelong cynicism give way to genuine emotion. The pending war lends the romance a special urgency, and the lovers finally consummate their affair as the first Japanese soldiers storm into Nanjing. Ye paints a rich tableau of prewar Chinese politics and social mores. The contrast between the advance of the Japanese and Ding's slow seduction of Ren is both poignant and deliciously ironic. The only weakness is Berry's uneven, sometimes stiff translation ("At the wedding ceremony... the biggest embarrassment Ding Wenyu caused stemmed from the way he wantonly stared at the bride Yuyuan").
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--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Best-selling Chinese author Zhaoyan Ye has fashioned an unlikely love story set against the grim and chaotic backdrop of the infamous Rape of Nanjing in 1937. When inveterate playboy and indifferent professor Ding Wenyu falls unexpectedly in love, the object of his affection is, unfortunately, the bride at the wedding he is attending. Although he ardently and imprudently pursues Ren Yuyuan, a woman 20 years his junior, she ignores his attentions until her husband, a fighter pilot in the Chinese air force, is reportedly killed in action. As the Japanese invasion progresses and Nanjing is threatened, Wenyu and Yuyuan embark upon a love affair destined to end in tragedy. Juxtaposed with the ominous advances of the Japanese army, this searing romance ironically links the destruction and turmoil of war with the bittersweet promise of newfound love. Zhaoyan Ye has managed to capture and communicate a broad spectrum of passionate emotions that transcend the cultural divide between East and West.
Margaret FlanaganCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 专业书评 #REF!
