{"product_id":"二手书-鸳鸯六七四-9成新","title":"Used book, \"Mandarin Ducks 674\" [90% new]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Everyone may be dealt a bad hand. Playing the bad cards well is the only thing we can do in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e==============================================================\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mandarin Ducks Six-Seven-Four\" (鸳鸯六七四) are the worst four cards in Pai Gow. Get them, and you're 99% sure to lose. \"Mandarin Ducks Six\" refers to two sixes of different suits. \"Seven-Four\" refers to a seven and a four.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMa Jiahui uses the metaphor of a bad hand to illustrate the impermanence of life and the audacity of all kinds of江湖 (jianghu, literally \"rivers and lakes\", referring to the criminal underworld or society at large) men and women who brave the storms – gambling with opportunity, gambling with love, gambling with fate, laughing, singing, and shouting against the tombstone of time, holding onto true feelings and staying true to themselves in adversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e============================================================\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Hong Kong under the night sky, people yearned for one last moment of unrestrained joy. The \"Dragon Washing Ceremony\" of gang boss \"Toothy Bing\" was about to begin, and brothers, bar girls, foreigners, Hong Kong police, and political and business elites were all present. Face after face, like characters on yesterday's stage, they pushed Ah Bing, from \"Little Bing\" to \"Brother Bing.\" His wife, Ah Bing, known as \"Shantou Ninth Sister,\" had once criticized him for lacking ambition, hated him for his flirtatious ways, and had briefly betrayed him, yet they ultimately shared a \"mandarin duck fate,\" accompanying him through one challenge after another in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt this grand feast, Ah Bing had intended to announce his retirement from the jianghu, but to everyone's surprise, he disappeared without a trace that very day. The answer lay hidden in the three hands he was dealt...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"indent\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"intro\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMa Jiahui\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, in 1963, Ma Jiahui holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin. He is a renowned writer, media personality, and cultural commentator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe loves writing, adores writing, and basically, only knows how to write. His essay collections include \"Something's Up in the Jianghu,\" \"Secret Affairs of the Years,\" \"It's Not Bad to Die Here,\" \"Falling in Love with a Few Scumbags,\" \"Uncle,\" and \"Little Sister.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2016, he published his first full-length novel, \"The Head of the Dragon, the Tail of the Phoenix,\" which won over twenty literary awards, including \"Asia Weekly's\" Top Ten Novels of the Year, \"Southern Weekend's\" Cultural Originality List - Top Fiction Book of the Year, the Hong Kong Book Prize, the Chinese Literature Media Award - Novelist of the Year (Top Five), and the Taiwan Literary Award - Golden Award for Long Fiction (Top Five).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WULOLIFE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56915515900248,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0575\/8097\/8291\/files\/IMG_4885_e03d3f1b-ecd7-4370-a385-60d737cbd9de.heic?v=1773569464","url":"https:\/\/wulolife.com\/en\/products\/%e4%ba%8c%e6%89%8b%e4%b9%a6-%e9%b8%b3%e9%b8%af%e5%85%ad%e4%b8%83%e5%9b%9b-9%e6%88%90%e6%96%b0","provider":"WULOLIFE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}