上海王

Shanghai Trilogy #1

by Hong Ying, 虹影

《上海王》为著名作家虹影“重写海上花”系列小说的第一部。一个沦落风尘的乡下女孩，落入旧上海黑帮控制的妓院，成为黑帮老大的意中人，过着令人眼花缭乱的生活，又奇迹般陷入地狱。历经数年艰辛，她成了演员，开创了一个新剧种，却不得不再次投入另一黑帮老大的怀中。在江湖争斗中巧妙周旋，也在情欲与权力的漩涡里挣扎，先后做过三个黑帮帮主的情妇，她终于成为君临十里洋场的幕后上海王。

280 pages, Paperback

First published August 10, 2005

About the author

Hong 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.

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