![Item #33691 Girls of Shanghai [alt. title: The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai]. Han Bangqing, Eileen Chang, Eva Hung, trans., ed.](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33691.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775746456)
Girls of Shanghai [alt. title: The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai]
New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Very Good / Very Good. Item #33691
ISBN: 0231122683
New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. First English-language Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket; red boards with gilt lettering to spine; [xxx],554pp. Jacket shelfworn with a few creases along edges and chipping at head of spine. Boards bumped along top edges, spine ends, and lightly at corners. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good and sound.
Considered one of the greatest works of 19th-century Chinese fiction, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai, is a panoramic chronicle of the lives of courtesans and their patrons; a high spot of courtesan fiction executed in a modernist manner. Originally written in Wu Chinese, the great Chinese-American novelist Eileen Chang translated the novel into Mandarin, and the manuscript for an English language translation was found among her papers after her death in 1995. An important late Qing work and further testament to Chang's genius; first clothbound edition scarce in retail.
Price: $150.00