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《上海王》是著名作家虹影“重写海上花三部曲”（《上海王》《上海之死》《上海魔术师》）中的第一部，讲述了清末民初上海一位传奇女子的故事。
父母双亡的乡下丫头小月桂被卖身妓馆，鸨母新黛玉嫌弃她粗手大脚不能接客，只用作粗使丫头。不料，洪帮老大常力雄却对她一见倾心。
常力雄要娶小月桂却突然遭到暗杀。而断送常力雄性命和小月桂前程的竟是她的一个眼色。小月桂沦落十里洋场最底层，却念念不忘常力雄。
小月桂借助自己当初一个眼色救下的新任洪帮老大黄佩玉之力东山再起，成为“申曲女王”筱月桂，却调查出黄佩玉正是暗杀常力雄的策划者。
筱月桂联合常力雄旧时保镖余其扬设计杀死黄佩玉，并将余其扬推上洪帮老大的位置。而真正的“上海王”却是幕后的筱月桂。
父母双亡的乡下丫头小月桂被卖身妓馆，鸨母新黛玉嫌弃她粗手大脚不能接客，只用作粗使丫头。不料，洪帮老大常力雄却对她一见倾心。
常力雄要娶小月桂却突然遭到暗杀。而断送常力雄性命和小月桂前程的竟是她的一个眼色。小月桂沦落十里洋场最底层，却念念不忘常力雄。
小月桂借助自己当初一个眼色救下的新任洪帮老大黄佩玉之力东山再起，成为“申曲女王”筱月桂，却调查出黄佩玉正是暗杀常力雄的策划者。
筱月桂联合常力雄旧时保镖余其扬设计杀死黄佩玉，并将余其扬推上洪帮老大的位置。而真正的“上海王”却是幕后的筱月桂。
368 pages, Paperback
First published August 10, 2005
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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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