TY  - GEN
T1  - City of the queen : a novel of colonial Hong Kong
T2  - Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan.
A1  - Shi, Shuqing, 1945-
A2  - Lin, Sylvia Li-chun
A2  - Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
LA  - English
LA  - Chinese
PP  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm64589276
AB  - After being kidnapped from her home in rural China, Huang is taken to Hong Kong and sold into prostitution. Yet thanks to her shrewd, sometimes devious business dealings and several twists of fate, she overcomes these cruel beginnings and finds success as a wealthy landowner. What follows is the epic story of Huang's family, lived under the shadow of colonialism. Adam Smith, a British officer, struggles with the competing seductions of Huang's beauty and British respectability; Qu Yabing, Smith's servant, despises anything Chinese, yet becomes Huang's lover; Huang's devoutly Christian daughter-in-law tries to redeem the sins she believes Huang has committed; and her great-granddaughter, a quintessential Hong Kong youth, turns her back on tradition to revel in the pleasures of the metropolis. In this unconventional and compelling tale, acclaimed Taiwanese writer Shih Shu-ching captures the rich detail and unique tensions of a vividly evolving Hong Kong.
OP  - 302
CN  - PL2899.H279 X5313 2005eb
SN  - 0231509898
SN  - 9780231509893
SN  - 0231134568
SN  - 9780231134569
SN  - 9780231134576
SN  - 0231134576
KW  - Hong Kong (China) : Fiction.
KW  - FICTION : Literary.
KW  - China : Hong Kong
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fiction.
KW  - Romans.
ER  -