重訪邊城

by Eileen Chang

一九六一年秋，張愛玲先訪台灣，再到香港，這是張愛玲有生之年唯一一次造訪台灣。一九六三年三月，張愛玲將此行的見聞寫成一篇英文遊記〈A Return To The Frontier〉，發表于美國雜誌《The Reporter》。二○○七年，張愛玲作品的版權繼承人宋以朗重新整理家中的張愛玲資料，沒想到卻找出三十四頁張愛玲從未發表過的〈重訪邊城〉中文手稿，經過比對，發現它並不是〈A Return To The Frontier〉的中譯本，而是張愛玲在上世紀八○年代以中文重新寫作的新版本。
台灣與香港，在張愛玲眼中皆屬邊城，透過張愛玲靈巧煥彩的文字，我們得以一窺舊時台灣的面貌，也略嘗張愛玲對香港的淡淡鄉愁之情。

Genres: China

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Eileen Chang is the English name for Chinese author 張愛玲, who was born to a prominent family in Shanghai (one of her great-grandfathers was Li Hongzhang) in 1920.

She went to a prestigious girls' school in Shanghai, where she changed her name from Chang Ying to Chang Ai-ling to match her English name, Eileen. Afterwards, she attended the University of Hong Kong, but had to go back to Shanghai when Hong Kong fell to Japan during WWII. While in Shanghai, she was briefly married to Hu Lancheng, the notorious Japanese collaborator, but later got a divorce.

After WWII ended, she returned to Hong Kong and later immigrated to the United States in 1955. She married a scriptwriter in 1956 and worked as a screenwriter herself for a Hong Kong film studio for a number of years, before her husband's death in 1967. She moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1972 and became a hermit of sorts during her last years. She passed away alone in her apartment in 1995.

Reviews

[Jennifer Kwok · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s not meant to be published.

[Estekke · Rating 4 out of 5]

昨晚读到四点 读的很快很顺，喜欢对照记 重访边城 一九九八至——？
谈看书的两篇没细看（对人种考据实在没兴趣）
海上花的那篇也没看（因为没看过海上花）