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The New Yorker Author: Pai Hsien-yung Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
The New Yorker Author: Pai Hsien-yung Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The most interesting thing about the chessboard-like streets in Manhattan, New York is that each street has a distinct personality and culture. When crossing a street, sometimes even the race of the residents changes, from white to black, from yellow to brown. New York is a real immigrant metropolis, where people from all over the world gather and mix in this racial melting pot. It is easy to lose yourself, because New York is infinitely large, infinitely deep, and a ruthless world. The joys and sorrows of individuals floating in it are like a drop in the ocean, which will be submerged if it turns over.
In the summers of 1963 and 1964, I collected many New York pictures in my mind, and these pictures slowly turned into a series of "New York stories"... In the spring of 1965, I began to write "The Exiled Immortal" at a table in the park by the Iowa River. At that time, the spring was warm, the ice in the Iowa River melted, and the branches and leaves began to show new green. Everything was reviving, but what I wrote was a tragic story about a heroine who drifted to Venice and drowned herself. At that time, I decided to make this novel the first in the "New Yorker" series, and quoted Chen Zi'ang's "Song of Climbing the Youzhou Tower" as the postscript. Perhaps I felt that Li Tong's final feeling of loneliness was as profound as "the vastness of the world". ... But a century has passed, and "New York" has gradually retreated into a distant "magic city" in my heart, with its gates wide open, still unconditionally accepting a constant stream of wandering souls.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Bai Xianyong is a novelist, essayist, critic and playwright. He was born in Guilin, Guangxi in 1937. He is the son of the famous general Bai Chongxi. He graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Taiwan University and received a master's degree in literary creation from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has written short story collections "Lonely Seventeen Years Old", "Taipei People" and "The New Yorker", novel "The Wicked Son", essay collections "The Tree Is Still Like This", "Looking Back Suddenly", "Star Cafe" and "The Sixth Finger", stage play script "A Dream in the Garden", film scripts "The Last Night of Lady Jin", "Sister Yuqing", "Lonely Love Flower" and "The Last Nobleman", etc. He has reorganized the Ming Dynasty opera "The Peony Pavilion" by Tang Xianzu and "The Jade Hairpin" by Gao Lian, and wrote a biography of his father Bai Chongxi, "The Photo Album of General Bai Chongxi". After 2004, he invested heavily in the production and performance of the Kunqu opera classic "The Peony Pavilion". The youth version of "The Peony Pavilion" has been performed more than 200 times so far, causing a great sensation in the Chinese world and launching an opportunity for the revival of Kunqu opera on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
