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虹影在寫完本書時，說：「這是目前?止我寫得最好、寫得最過癮的一部作品。」
長篇小說《上海王》在大陸由長江文藝出版社推出，首印十萬冊，深受矚目，並即將改拍成電影及電視劇；在台灣亦叫好叫座，蟬聯暢銷排行榜。虹影高妙的說故事能力、文字強烈的魅惑力、情節環環相扣的震撼力，讓整個故事精采萬分。她在《上海王》推出後，仍像繡花女般慢功細活、添補修改，二修，三修，於是有了這個更謹嚴的修訂本。
《上海王》的故事從上海小西門一家名叫「一品樓書寓」的妓院開始，鄉下姑娘筱月桂，不幸落入舊上海黑幫控制的妓院，令人眼花撩亂的生活讓她成?黑幫老大的意中人，好景不長，她陷入地獄般的困境。幾經掙扎，她成了耀眼的明星，開創了新的劇種，卻不得不再次投入另一黑幫老大的懷裡，她在江湖爭鬥中巧妙周旋，也在情欲與權力的漩渦裡掙扎。兼具美貌、身段、智慧、手腕，先後做了三個黑幫幫主的情婦，終於使她成了真正君臨十里洋場的幕後上海王……
長篇小說《上海王》在大陸由長江文藝出版社推出，首印十萬冊，深受矚目，並即將改拍成電影及電視劇；在台灣亦叫好叫座，蟬聯暢銷排行榜。虹影高妙的說故事能力、文字強烈的魅惑力、情節環環相扣的震撼力，讓整個故事精采萬分。她在《上海王》推出後，仍像繡花女般慢功細活、添補修改，二修，三修，於是有了這個更謹嚴的修訂本。
《上海王》的故事從上海小西門一家名叫「一品樓書寓」的妓院開始，鄉下姑娘筱月桂，不幸落入舊上海黑幫控制的妓院，令人眼花撩亂的生活讓她成?黑幫老大的意中人，好景不長，她陷入地獄般的困境。幾經掙扎，她成了耀眼的明星，開創了新的劇種，卻不得不再次投入另一黑幫老大的懷裡，她在江湖爭鬥中巧妙周旋，也在情欲與權力的漩渦裡掙扎。兼具美貌、身段、智慧、手腕，先後做了三個黑幫幫主的情婦，終於使她成了真正君臨十里洋場的幕後上海王……
390 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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