Written on Water (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
In Written on Water, first published in 1945 and now available for the first time in English, Chang offers essays on art, literature, war, and urban life, as well as autobiographical reflections. Chang takes in the sights and sounds of wartime Shanghai and Hong Kong, with the tremors of national...
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In Written on Water, first published in 1945 and now available for the first time in English, Chang offers essays on art, literature, war, and urban life, as well as autobiographical reflections. Chang takes in the sights and sounds of wartime Shanghai and Hong Kong, with the tremors of national upheaval and the drone of warplanes in the background, and inventively fuses explorations of urban life, literary trends, domestic habits, and historic events.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780231131384 (0231131380)
Publish date: March 30th 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Essays on life in Hong Kong during WWI; variously reminiscent of Colette and Elizabeth Bowen. An acute attention to sensual detail.
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