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是首部中文“旅馆小说”，写的是一个精彩的谍报故事。
1941年秋冬，中国孤独的坚持抗战已四年，欧洲战事到了最紧急关头，上海孤岛却如世外桃源。导演谭呐决定演出浪漫爱情剧《狐步上海》，请客居香港的名演员于堇回沪演出，于堇同意了，却有她自己的几重目的，她住进国际饭店，与盟国，日军，汪伪，以及其他方面的谍报人员展开了一轮争分夺秒的情报战。
1941年秋冬，中国孤独的坚持抗战已四年，欧洲战事到了最紧急关头，上海孤岛却如世外桃源。导演谭呐决定演出浪漫爱情剧《狐步上海》，请客居香港的名演员于堇回沪演出，于堇同意了，却有她自己的几重目的，她住进国际饭店，与盟国，日军，汪伪，以及其他方面的谍报人员展开了一轮争分夺秒的情报战。
281 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2005
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About the author
Hong Ying
101 books56 followersHong Ying was born in Chongqing in 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories. After brief periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai’s Fudan University, Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she as writer. She returned to Beijing in 2000.
Best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River, Hong Ying has been published in twenty- nineteen languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries, she won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love in 2005 and many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films.
Hong Ying has long been interested in the stories of homosexuals living in China, a theme explored here and in her short story collection, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Fiction About Gay and Lesbian Love in China 1993-1998. In her work, she likes to focus on human stories, hardship and history. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility – and for compassion – in contemporary China.
Chinese Profile: 虹影
Best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River, Hong Ying has been published in twenty- nineteen languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries, she won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love in 2005 and many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films.
Hong Ying has long been interested in the stories of homosexuals living in China, a theme explored here and in her short story collection, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Fiction About Gay and Lesbian Love in China 1993-1998. In her work, she likes to focus on human stories, hardship and history. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility – and for compassion – in contemporary China.
Chinese Profile: 虹影
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