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In this tale of seduction and deception, a wealthy banker is smitten by an alluring young woman while travelling aboard the express train from Beijing to Shanghai. Shanghai Express was considered entertainment fiction and was enormously popular in the 1930s. William Lyell's translation allows an English-reading audience to share in the fun.

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In Shanghai Express Zhang Henshui used a recurring theme in traditional Chinese literature: love between an honest, credulous man and a sly woman.... [But] he replaced the moral message of the traditional story—that young men should not fall in love with amoral women—with another message more suitable for modern times: do not fall in love with someone who might bring about financial and social ruin."< —China Review International

"Lyell’s translation captures and conveys Zhang’s Chinese literary style with admirable skill and sensibility." —Choice

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    A Paperback / softback by Zhang Henshui, William A. Lyell, Jr.

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 30/04/1997
      ISBN13: 9780824818302, 978-0824818302
      ISBN10: 082481830X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this tale of seduction and deception, a wealthy banker is smitten by an alluring young woman while travelling aboard the express train from Beijing to Shanghai. Shanghai Express was considered entertainment fiction and was enormously popular in the 1930s. William Lyell's translation allows an English-reading audience to share in the fun.

      Trade Review
      In Shanghai Express Zhang Henshui used a recurring theme in traditional Chinese literature: love between an honest, credulous man and a sly woman.... [But] he replaced the moral message of the traditional story—that young men should not fall in love with amoral women—with another message more suitable for modern times: do not fall in love with someone who might bring about financial and social ruin."< —China Review International

      "Lyell’s translation captures and conveys Zhang’s Chinese literary style with admirable skill and sensibility." —Choice

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