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海上花列传
《海上花列传》是清末著名小说。它是最著名的吴语小说，也是中国第一部方言小说。亦名《绘图青楼宝鉴》、《绘图海上青楼奇缘》，凡64回。这部长篇小说的主要内容是写清末中国上海十里洋场中的妓院生活，涉及当时的官场、商界及与之相链接的社会层面。
465 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 23, 2012
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Han Bangqing
4 books3 followersHan Bangqing (Chinese: 韓邦慶; pinyin: Hán Bāngqìng; Wade–Giles: Han Pang-ch'ing; 1856–1894), also known by the given name Ji (寄), courtesy name Ziyun (子雲), and pseudonyms Taixian (太仙), Dayi Shanren (大一山人), Hua Ye Lian Nong (花也憐儂), and Sanqing (三慶), was a late-Qing dynasty Chinese writer from Songjiang, Jiangsu (now a district of Shanghai).
As a child he went with his father to live in Beijing. He failed at the imperial examinations many times and eventually wrote for the newspaper Shen Bao in Shanghai. In 1892, he started what can be considered China's first for-profit literary magazine, the Wonderbook of Shanghai, which lasted eight months, and in which he published his novel Haishang Hua in instalments. The novel has been widely acclaimed as a classic (particularly by Lu Xun, Hu Shih, and Eileen Chang) but is little read today, likely due to its being written entirely in Wu Chinese, unintelligible to Mandarin speakers. It was translated into Mandarin and English by Eileen Chang. After Chang's death in 1995, the translation was discovered among her papers and published in English as The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai in 2005 after revision by Eva Hung. Not long after publication of the novel, Han Bangqing died in 1894, aged 38.
(From Wikipedia)
As a child he went with his father to live in Beijing. He failed at the imperial examinations many times and eventually wrote for the newspaper Shen Bao in Shanghai. In 1892, he started what can be considered China's first for-profit literary magazine, the Wonderbook of Shanghai, which lasted eight months, and in which he published his novel Haishang Hua in instalments. The novel has been widely acclaimed as a classic (particularly by Lu Xun, Hu Shih, and Eileen Chang) but is little read today, likely due to its being written entirely in Wu Chinese, unintelligible to Mandarin speakers. It was translated into Mandarin and English by Eileen Chang. After Chang's death in 1995, the translation was discovered among her papers and published in English as The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai in 2005 after revision by Eva Hung. Not long after publication of the novel, Han Bangqing died in 1894, aged 38.
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