海上花開

海上花列傳 #1

by Han Bangqing, Eileen Chang (Annotator)

《海上花》被胡適稱為吳語文學的第一部傑作，內容是一部寫妓院的社會小說。由於是方言文學，當時的蘇白與官話及書中典故均不是一般人所能熟悉，張愛玲將整部小說譯成國語，讓這部小說第三次在文壇受到重視。但她並無把握能獲得讀者喜愛，又因考據紅樓夢，而自嘲是：張愛玲五詳『紅樓夢』看官們三棄『海上花』。

Genres: China, Fiction

376 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1992

About the author

Han Bangqing (Chinese: 韓邦慶; pinyin: Hán Bāngqìng; Wade–Giles: Han Pang-ch'ing; 1856–1894), also known by the given name Ji (寄), courtesy name Ziyun (子雲), and pseudonyms Taixian (太仙), Dayi Shanren (大一山人), Hua Ye Lian Nong (花也憐儂), and Sanqing (三慶), was a late-Qing dynasty Chinese writer from Songjiang, Jiangsu (now a district of Shanghai).

As a child he went with his father to live in Beijing. He failed at the imperial examinations many times and eventually wrote for the newspaper Shen Bao in Shanghai. In 1892, he started what can be considered China's first for-profit literary magazine, the Wonderbook of Shanghai, which lasted eight months, and in which he published his novel Haishang Hua in instalments. The novel has been widely acclaimed as a classic (particularly by Lu Xun, Hu Shih, and Eileen Chang) but is little read today, likely due to its being written entirely in Wu Chinese, unintelligible to Mandarin speakers. It was translated into Mandarin and English by Eileen Chang. After Chang's death in 1995, the translation was discovered among her papers and published in English as The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai in 2005 after revision by Eva Hung. Not long after publication of the novel, Han Bangqing died in 1894, aged 38.

(From Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Igofar · Rating 4 out of 5]

看完电影之后才来看的小说 目前上部刚看完 只觉侯孝贤不愧为大家 同名改编的电影竟也能道出如此精髓来。虽是吴语文字 虽理解起来略艰难 但仍忍不住投入其中 喜不自胜。

[汪先生 · Rating 3 out of 5]

2016-04-30 22:24:51
十里洋场，多少风情，花开在最美好的时代，一切都是那么的柔情万种。

[Maya Liang · Rating 4 out of 5]

原本對方言文學很有些抗拒，因為在閱讀時有距離。但書起篇便收了胡適對方言文學的看法，好像投下了定心丸般的讓人平心靜氣看下去。
書中描述的一切是現在的我們所不熟悉的內容，但仍是很引人進入那迷幻又現實的世界。而人與人之間微妙又巧勁的互動，則是放諸任何時代都是一樣的心機。

[Yannes · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5

This was so entertaining

黃翠鳳 & 羅子富 supremacy 🫶🏻

Also 周雙玉 & 朱淑人??🥹