围城
Qian Zhongshu translator: Jeanne Kelly / Nathan K. Mao
overview
Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's
in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre,"
is its own unique feast of delights.
other editions
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围城 人民文学出版社 2017 -
Die umzingelte Festung（漢德双語） 外语教学与研究出版社 2016 -
围城 人民文学出版社 2013 -
围城 Sinolingua Co.,Ltd 2008 -
围城 人民文学出版社 2007 -
圍城 大地出版社 2007 -
Fortress Besieged Penguin Classics 2005 -
围城 人民文学出版社 2003 -
围城 人民文学出版社 2003 -
围城（软精装） 2003 -
围城 生活·读书·新知三联书店 2002 -
围城 人民文学出版社 2001 -
围城 人民文学出版社 2000 -
圍城 天地圖書有限公司 1997 -
《围城》汇校本 四川文藝岀版社 1992 -
围城（高中部分） 1991 -
围城 人民文学出版社 1991 -
围城 人民文学出版社 1991 -
围城 人民文学出版社 1991 -
围城 人民文学出版社 1991 -
围城 人民文学出版社 1991 -
围城 人民文学出版社 1991 -
围城 人民文学出版社 1985