{"id":1575,"date":"2007-09-01T19:57:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T23:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:04:58","slug":"love-in-a-fallen-city-by-eileen-chang-tranlsated-by-karen-s-kingsbury-and-eileen-chang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/love-in-a-fallen-city-by-eileen-chang-tranlsated-by-karen-s-kingsbury-and-eileen-chang\/","title":{"rendered":"Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang, translated by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/09\/Love-in-a-Fallen-City.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30256\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/09\/Love-in-a-Fallen-City.jpg\" alt=\"Love in a Fallen City\" width=\"762\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/09\/Love-in-a-Fallen-City.jpg 762w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/09\/Love-in-a-Fallen-City-521x800.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/a>Considered to be one of the great writers of 20th-century China since she hit the literary scene in the 1940s with a mighty bang, Chang died in obscurity in Los Angeles in 1995. Recently rediscovered thanks in part to filmmaker Ang Lee (Oscar-winning <em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em>; <em>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/em>), who brings Chang to the big screen this month (September 28 film debut), Chang should posthumously return to the literary limelight with new accessibility for Western readers. Her stark characters, created more than a half century ago, will undoubtedly resonate with today\u2019s disconnected, searching generation, but it\u2019s definitely a timeless must-read for all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/trb-1007-09-10-windowsasian-lit-in-translation-proof.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Windows: Asian Literature in Translation: New &amp; Notable Books,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, September\/October 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1576\" title=\"love-in-a-fallen-city\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/love-in-a-fallen-city.jpg\" alt=\"love-in-a-fallen-city\" width=\"120\" height=\"193\" \/>Considered to be one of the great writers of 20th-century China since she hit the literary scene in the 1940s with a mighty bang, Chang died in obscurity in Los Angeles in 1995. Recently rediscovered thanks in part to filmmaker Ang Lee (Oscar-winning <em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em>; <em>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/em>), who brings Chang to the big screen this month (September 28 film debut), Chang should posthumously return to the literary limelight with new accessibility for Western readers. Her stark characters, created more than a half century ago, will undoubtedly resonate with today\u2019s disconnected, searching generation, but it\u2019s definitely a timeless must-read for all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/trb-1007-09-10-windowsasian-lit-in-translation-proof.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Windows: Asian Literature in Translation: New &amp; Notable Books,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, September\/October 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,67,6,6535,7,66],"tags":[84,1968,6608,3341,11,24,3344,13,3345,28,45],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese","category-fiction","category-repost","category-short-stories","category-translation","tag-betrayal","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-eileen-chang","tag-friendship","tag-historical","tag-karen-s-kingsbury","tag-love","tag-love-in-a-fallen-city","tag-politics","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang, translated by Karen S. 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