Love in a Fallen City (novella)

Love in a Fallen City
倾城之恋
Penguin Modern Classics edition
AuthorEileen Chang
張愛玲
LanguageChinese
GenreRomance
Published1943
Publication placeChina

Love in a Fallen City (傾城之戀) is a 1943 Chinese-language novella by Eileen Chang.[1] The translation is included in the New York Review of Books "Classics" series.[2]

The story focuses about a love story that triumphed during the wartime Hong Kong. Scholar Nicole Huang suggests that Eileen Chang's "most important literary legacy from the 1940s is her construction of an alternative narrative of war, one that contradicted the grand narratives of national salvation and revolution that dominated the wartime literary scene."[3]

  1. ^ Tsui, Jessica Yan Li (2012). "From Page to Stage: Cultural 'In-betweenness' in (New) Love in a Fallen City". In Louie, Kam (ed.). Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 33–47. ISBN 978-988-8083-79-4. Project MUSE chapter 424151.
  2. ^ Cregan, Mary (14 September 2007). "Love in a Fallen City". Financial Times.
  3. ^ Nicole Huang, "Introduction," in Eileen Chang, Written on Water, translated by Andrew F. Jones (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), xii.