Description
Shanghai Express was considered "entertainment" fiction and was enormously popular in the 1930s. William Lyell's sparkling translation at last allows an English-reading audience to share in the fun.
Reviews
In Shanghai Express Zhang Henshui used a recurring theme in traditional Chinese literature: love between an honest, credulous man and a sly woman.... [But] he replaced the moral message of the traditional story-that young men should not fall in love with amoral women-with another message more suitable for modern times: do not fall in love with someone who might bring about financial and social ruin."< -China Review International
"Lyell's translation captures and conveys Zhang's Chinese literary style with admirable skill and sensibility." -Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9780824818302
Author Zhang Henshui
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
Publisher University of Hawai'i Press
Weight(grams) 367g