Apolitical or Political: Idealistic Love Pursuits Through the Expression of Individualism and Aestheticism in Eileen Chang’s 張愛玲 アイリーン・チャン Love in a Fallen City (傾城之戀)
Apolitical or Political: Idealistic Love Pursuits Through the Expression of Individualism and Aestheticism in Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64137/31078729/IJLLH-V2I1P105Keywords:
Cognition, depiction, Homo sapiens, Pictorialization, seeing-in, Upper Paleolithic “creative explosion,” Eileen Chang 張愛玲 アイリーン・チャン, Hong Kong, Comparative Literature, NationAbstract
In 2020, The University of Hong Kong celebrated the centennial birth of its alumni Eileen Chang with materials from the HKU Archives. In 2022, a new translation of Eileen Chang’s story “Xiang Jian Huan” was discovered from the Ailing Zhang papers of USC Libraries’s Special Collection. Echoing recent discoveries in the Eileen Chang Studies, this project ponders upon the motif of politics and adventure fiction within the cultural landscape of Hong Kong. Re-assessing the role of war in historicity, this paper hopes to contribute to new understandings in Hong Kong Studies.
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