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  1. The song of everlasting sorrow
    a novel of Shanghai
    Author: Wang, Anyi
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780231143431; 0231143435
    Series: Weatherhead books on Asia
    Other subjects: Array
    Scope: 1 v.
    Notes:

    This translation originally published: 2008

  2. The song of everlasting sorrow
    a novel of Shanghai
    Author: Wang, Anyi
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods.Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of... more

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    Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods.Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of her life. During the next four decades, Wang Qiyao indulges in the decadent pleasures of pre-liberation Shanghai, secretly playing mahjong during the antirightist Movement and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cul

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Wang, Anyi
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0231143427; 9780231143431; 9780231143424
    Series: Weatherhead books on Asia
    Subjects: Shanghai (China) -- Fiction
    Scope: Online-Ressource (viii, 440 p)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 440)

    Translated from the Chinese

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    Contents; Translators' Notes and Acknowledgments; The Song of Everlasting Sorrow; Part I; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Part II; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Part III; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Afterword