Ebook {Epub PDF} The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing

Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic.  · Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late Author: Bangqing Han. Han Bangqing wrote this Qing courtesan book in Shanghai (Wu) dialect. "Sing-song Girls" hails from the "Mandarin ducks" genre of novel writing. A lot of reference in the novel is to "The Dream of the Red Chamber" a highly popular classical novel in China. "Sing-song Girls" is 4/5(13).

In the study at hand, I analyze Bangqing Han's ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] ) novel (The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai. Trans. Eileen Chang) with regard to its relevance in English-language scholarship about urbanity in nineteenth-century Chinese literature, an as-of-yet less studied area. The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing. PDF | Jing'an District, locates in the center of Shanghai, is considered as After EXPO,the red light zone in Kangding Road vanished. Red-light districts are areas associated with the sex industry and sex-oriented businesses In. in Taiwan to set up special zones where prostitution is permitted. THE SING-SONG GIRLS OF SHANGHAI by Han Bangqing translated by Eileen Chang Eva Hung ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, Of opium pellets and smoke-filled alleys: an episodic novel of the Chinese demimonde, first published in Literary scholar David Der-wei Wang offers in a foreword that this is the "greatest late Qing courtesan novel.

Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late. Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese fiction, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is now available for the first time in English. Neither sentimental nor sensationalistic in its portrayal of courtesans and their male patrons, Han's work inquires into the moral and psychological consequences of desire. Considered one of the great works of Chinese fiction, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is a story of desire and virtue set in the pleasure quarters of nineteenth-century Shanghai. Han Bangqing, himself a frequent habitué of the city's notorious brothels, reveals a world populated by lonely souls who seek consolation amid the pleasures and decadence of Shanghai's demimonde.