This novel describes the growing up a small girl in Shanghai at a time when traditional values are turned upside down and new values have yet to be established. This small girl is mature well beyond her age, and the novel records her perceptions of the adults around her.
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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, butit 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
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Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in mainland China. 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.
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A great Chinese writer.....
12. März 2011
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I have read the Rice Sprout Song by Eileen Chang, the great Chinese writer. She also wrote several books about her life in China. Hence, I decide to buy this book by her: THE FALL OF THE PAGODA about her life, especially during the illegal Jap invasion of our ancestral homeland of China. The late Ms. Eleen Chang was a prolific writer and her book: The Rice Sprout Song plus others could have earned her the coveteous Nobel Prize for Literature had she lived. Although she was gone now, but her books would remind us the Chinese of our ancient and proud civilization and the many political problems. In 1957, I read an important book concerning the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in which the late Eleen Chang ably translated from Chinese to English. The book was called: FOOL IN THE REEDS.
This is not a review but just a write up and appreciation of one of China's most modern and influential modern writer: Eleen Chang. Eleen Chang's spent her last days in seclusion in New York after her divorce and there she passed away sadly in her apartment. Eleen Chang's Chinese name was Chang Ai Ling and her great grandfather was named Li Hoong Zang, a very influential minister of the defunct Manchu Dynasty (1644-1952). After Imperial China lost the naval war to the Imperial Japs, Li Hong Zhang was despatched by the Manchu government to Imperial Japan to sign a treaty of peace and there he was nearly assassinated by a Jap political extremist...in the 1800s...! Eleen Chang spent her early childhood in her great grandfather's home with its spacious surrounds called the Secret Garden. She thus grew up first educated in classic Chinese and later to Hong Kong to study English...Cheers.
This is not a review but just a write up and appreciation of one of China's most modern and influential modern writer: Eleen Chang. Eleen Chang's spent her last days in seclusion in New York after her divorce and there she passed away sadly in her apartment. Eleen Chang's Chinese name was Chang Ai Ling and her great grandfather was named Li Hoong Zang, a very influential minister of the defunct Manchu Dynasty (1644-1952). After Imperial China lost the naval war to the Imperial Japs, Li Hong Zhang was despatched by the Manchu government to Imperial Japan to sign a treaty of peace and there he was nearly assassinated by a Jap political extremist...in the 1800s...! Eleen Chang spent her early childhood in her great grandfather's home with its spacious surrounds called the Secret Garden. She thus grew up first educated in classic Chinese and later to Hong Kong to study English...Cheers.
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