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红牡丹 - 纪念林语堂诞辰120周年私藏本

The Red Peony - Edition for the 120th Anniversary
Author(s):
LIN Yutang 林语堂, ZHANG Zhenyu 张振玉,
Publisher:
New World Press
Publication:
5/2015
Languages:
Chinese
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN/SKU:
9787510435416
Pages:
395
Sizes:
216 x 158mm
Weight:
0.6000
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In the last years of Qing Dynasty, there is a young beautiful widow called Mudan who is an individualized person boldly rebelling against the traditional doctrine and pursuing the freedom to love and her dreamed man. She successively falls in love and lives together with her first love who is a married man in her hometown, her elder cousin in the capital city, a boxing coach at Tianqiao, the famous poet in Hangzhou, etc. Mudan's noteworthy conduct makes her a controversial figure. Depressive and agonising life of being a mistress finally makes her bored. After being saved when she meets with a mishap, she finally finds destination of her love.
Lin Yutang (October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West.
《红牡丹》讲述了一位名为牡丹的年轻妇人丧夫后特立独行的情感生活。她大胆反叛传统礼教,追寻内心“理想的爱情”,多次浮沉于情海。林先生把人们内心对感情的矛盾与挣扎在牡丹身上放大并投射出来,微妙地演绎了人们面对感情时常有的心理状态与变化。《红牡丹》以主人公的感情生活为线索,情节跌宕起伏,引人入胜。
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林语堂,中国现代著名作家、学者、翻译家、语言学家。早年留学美国、德国,获哈佛大学文学硕士,莱比锡大学语言学博士。回国后在清华大学、北京大学、厦门大学任教。曾任联合国教科文组织美术与文学主任、国际笔会副会长等职。林语堂曾两度获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。作品包括小说《京华烟云》《啼笑皆非》。散文和杂文文集《人生的盛宴》《生活的艺术》以及译著《浮生六记》等。