Shanghai Companion: The All-in-one Guide to Shanghai

Author: Yan; Coco;
Language: English
Format: Papercover
Page: 179
Publication Date: 11/2008
ISBN: 9787802255647
Publisher: New Star Press
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As the Shanghainese novelist Eileen Chang wrote: "Shanghai thirty years ago on a moonlit night.., maybe we did not get to see the moon of thirty years ago. To young people the moon of thirty years ago should be a reddish-yellow wet stain the size of a copper coin, like a teardrop on letter paper by To-yun Hsuan, worn and blurred. In old people's memory the moon of thirty years ago was gay, larger, rounder, and whiter than the moon now. But seen after thirty years on a rough road, the best of moons is apt to be tinged with sadness."