Lust Caution: The Story by Eileen Chang, translated with a foreword by Julia Lovell, afterword by Ang Lee with a special essay by James Schamus [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Japanese, Repost, Translation
This single-story novella, to be released simultaneously with the eponymous film by Ang Lee, was undoubtedly inspired by Chang’s own relationship with a Japanese collaborator during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and Hong Kong. As part...
Part of the PocketEssentials series out the U.K., Ang Lee is one of the latest available additions to an eclectic mix of film-related titles. While it reads a bit like a glorified student project,...