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"Little Reunion" green hardcover edition Author: Zhang Ailing Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House Producer: Qingma Culture
"Little Reunion" green hardcover edition Author: Zhang Ailing Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House Producer: Qingma Culture
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Introduction · · · · · ·
I did not write "Little Reunion" to vent my anger. I have always believed that the best material is the material you know best, but due to nationalist sanctions, I have not been able to write it.
This is a passionate story. I want to express the twists and turns of love, and how there is still something left after complete disillusionment. - Letter from Eileen Chang
"Little Reunion" depicts Zhang Ailing's most intimate life material with her usual ironic and delicate brushwork. The bitter past events and real people in her history have achieved a historical reunion here. The lingering emotional presentation has reached the realm of perfection. Reading it is like being stabbed by a needle. The contradictions, struggles and confusions of men and women in the story reflect the various complex emotions deep in our hearts.
This book is published based on Zhang Ailing's manuscript. The original manuscript had 628 pages. After it was completed in 1976, Zhang Ailing sent it to her good friends Song Qi and Kuang Wenmei in Hong Kong. Later, it was not published due to various reasons. In February 2009, with the authorization of Song Yilang, the executor of Zhang Ailing's estate, Crown Publishing published it as a single volume for the first time.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Zhang Ailing was born in Shanghai on September 30, 1920. Her original name was Zhang Ying. She moved to Tianjin in 1922. In 1928, she moved back to Shanghai from Tianjin and read "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In 1930, she changed her name to Zhang Ailing. In 1939, she was admitted to the University of Hong Kong. In 1941, the Pacific War broke out and she devoted herself to literary creation. Two years later, she published works such as "Love in a Fallen City" and "The Golden Lock", and met Zhou Shoujuan, Ke Ling, Su Qing and Hu Lancheng. In 1944, she married Hu Lancheng. In 1945, her self-written "Love in a Fallen City" was performed in Shanghai; in the same year, the Anti-Japanese War was won. In 1947, she divorced Hu Lancheng, moved to Hong Kong in 1952, and left Hong Kong for the United States in 1955, and visited Hu Shi. In 1956, she met the playwright Lai Ya and married him in New York in August of the same year. Lai Ya died in 1967 and settled in Los Angeles in 1973. Two years later, he completed the English translation of the Qing Dynasty novel Flowers of Shanghai. He died in his Los Angeles apartment in September 1995 at the age of 74.
