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Half a Lifelong Romance

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Original title
  
半生緣 Ban Sheng Yuan

Set in
  
20th-century Shanghai

Originally published
  
1948

Translator
  
Karen Kingsbury

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Language
  
Chinese

Publication date
  
1948

Author
  
Eileen Chang

Country
  
China

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Adaptations
  
Eighteen Springs (1997), Affair of Half a Lifetime (2003)

Similar
  
Eileen Chang books, Other books

Half a Lifelong Romance (半生緣) is a Chinese novel by Eileen Chang. It was initially serialized on a Shanghai newspaper Yi Bao (亦報) in 1948, under the title Eighteen Springs (十八春). The novel was published as a book in 1950. In 1966, Chang edited the book in the United States and republished it under the title Half a Lifelong Romance in Taiwan.

The novel was translated to English in 2014 by Karen S. Kingsbury.

Adaptations

  • Eighteen Springs, a 1997 Hong Kong film
  • Affair of Half a Lifetime, a 2002 Chinese TV series
  • References

    Half a Lifelong Romance Wikipedia


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