Xu Zhenya

Broschiertes Buch

The Death of Yuli

Beschreibung

An ill-fate lady's love story…… The protagonist of this book is He Mengxia, a primary school teacher. He lived in the home of a distant relative, Cui Shi, and also served as a tutor of his family. He Mengxia and Bai Liying fell in love from admiration. However, this is a love that is doomed to be hopeless. Due to her frustration, Bai Liying introduced her sister-in-law Junqian to He Mengxia and forced them to marry by using "the scheme of grafting trees and removing flowers, and the scheme of replacing Li with a stiff peach". He Mengxia, resided in the distant relative Cui's home and also served as the coach of his family. Cui's widowed wife, Bai Liying, came from big family, and her son Penglang was couched by He Mengxia. Bai Liying felt sorry for her dead husband. On one hand, she killed herself in order to cut off He Mengxia's feelings for herself. Junqian was a new woman trained by the school. She yearned for free marriage, and was not satisfied with her widowed sister-in-law's arranged marriage. Later, he found out the love between Bai Liying and He Mengxia and felt that she had killed Bai Liying, so she also killed herself. He Mengxia also wanted to die for love, but thought that a true man should die for state affairs, so she went abroad to study and participated in the Wuchang Uprising after returning home and at last he died for her country.

Autor

Xu Zhenya, a novelist of the Republic of China. Xu Zhenya's family name was Jue, styled himself Zhenya. He was born in Changshu, Jiangsu and famous for writing parallel prose novels in the early Republic of China. He was a member of Nanshe and ever studied at Changshu Yunan School in his early years. Later, he mainly engaged in novel creation. He was good at describing the love tragedy of young men and women in gorgeous classical Chinese, and was the main representative writer of the Mandarin Duck & Butterfly School. The representative works include "the Death of Yuli", "History of Snow Hung's Tears", "Wave Ink" and "Acacia". His novels were mainly about romance. In his novel, he often borrowed western novel techniques and was good at writing parallel prose. In 1912, a film "the Death of Yuli" became very popular among the readers at that time, with influence reaching Southeast Asia. It was made into a film in 1924 and adapted into a drama in 1926.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Great Wall Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9798223408888
• Artikelnr.: 68432023