紅樓夢魘【張愛玲百歲誕辰紀念版】

by Eileen Chang

《红楼梦魇（精）》是张爱玲的红学研究论著。她历时十年研究《红楼梦》，撰写考据文章，后结集为本书。《红楼梦魇（精）》包括《自序》《红楼梦未完》《红楼梦插曲之一》《初详红楼梦》《二详红楼梦》《三详红楼梦》等数篇专文，细读详考，洞察秋毫。

Genres: Classics

368 pages, Paperback

Published June 8, 2020

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

[Josh Laws · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't really know anything about Eileen Chang going into this essay collection so this is my first experience with her writing. I found it very easy to read and much of the book was quite interesting. Chang lived through the Japanese invasion of China and spent a lot of her formative years in war torn Shanghai. She also had a unique childhood that was very different than I would have imagined. The essays centered on those two experiences were my favorites. She made a name for herself later as an art and film critic, but unfortunately most of the context of those essays was lost on me since she was referencing Chinese cinema that I know nothing about. Regardless, the book is beautifully written and definitely worth checking out for anyone interested in early 20th century Chinese culture.

[Jacqueline · Rating 3 out of 5]

我尝试过多此阅读这本书，书中的有些细节确实让人着迷。

但是似乎整本书有些不成体系，我不知道是我看的版本的问题，总让人觉得这是一本草稿。有些段落被反复提及多次，但最核心的内容似乎深藏在文字之中让人有些摸不清头脑。像是一部被剪辑地让人看不懂的电影。

也可能我缺少对文字的敏感性，总感觉越读越糊涂，一个个章节看完了却似乎有没有完结的感觉，也找不到重点之所在。也许要怪自己缺少文学修养也没有耐心吧。

[Xiahou]

其實並沒有看完，就已經暈頭轉向了。第一、二篇讀得仔細，有些語句，尤其是第一篇裏，不通順啊？像是草稿隨手寫了個提要，沒頭沒尾的感覺——一定是我才疏學淺⋯⋯

[王维蔚WeiweiWang · Rating 4 out of 5]

这本没有我家里那本封面好看，那本值得五星这本就四星吧。张爱玲这本常读常新，她比较之细致、逻辑之严密都是不必多谈了，最为精绝的还时少有人以创作者得视角去考红楼梦。她懂得作者要怎么写又应该会怎么改，几人能敌？有脂砚斋她就是脂砚张。

[Morris Yen · Rating 5 out of 5]

張愛玲相當詳細地比較不同的紅樓夢文本
不僅是判斷文本的先後，也是在釐清角色的關係與劇情的發展
算是挺學術的分析，喜歡紅樓夢的可以一看
只是能否完全理解是有難度的

[yy · Rating 4 out of 5]

记住几个好玩的观点。考证类书实在需要强大的心理素质和极深的知识储备啊，我是不行了～

[bennet_loves_books · Rating 5 out of 5]

很好看！通过这本书了解了张爱玲很多。

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the best Chinese-language books available on "Dream of the Red Chamber." Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing) is most well-known as a novelist, in fact, one of the greatest Chinese novelists in the modern era. What many people don't know is that she was addicted to the 18th-century Chinese masterpiece "Dream of the Red Chamber." It had a massive influence on her fiction writing, and especially when reading her works in Chinese, you can feel that influence, particularly in her lush and vivid descriptive language.

Being a "Dream junkie," Eileen Chang spent a decade putting this book together, which showcases the results of her intensive textual analysis and investigation, comparing various editions of early "Dream of the Red Chamber" manuscripts. Not being a trained "academic," her style is a bit disorganized, but her attention to detail and her unique perspective as an author of fiction herself (allowing her to better understand the writing process from an author's point of view), she has managed to make some very convincing arguments about Cao Xueqin's original intent with his novel, how it was originally supposed to end, "missing" scenes that were originally part of Cao's non-extant earlier work, "A Mirror for the Romantic," and more. Truly a phenomenal study and she never gets the credit she deserves as one of the most insightful "Dream" scholars over the past century. Unfortunately, the study of "The Dream" (known as "Redology" has long been a man's world, so that may be the reason why, although now there are more well-known female scholars of the novel).

If you can read Chinese and are a "Dream of the Red Chamber" junkie, this book is a must-read!