Huangmei Love
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers attached to Huangmei opera and traditional operatic subjects who want a contemporary saga
- Readers drawn to tangled romantic entanglements and identity secrets slowly revealed
- Adult fiction readers interested in the conflict between artistic ideals and human greed
- Literary-minded readers who want to feel how operatic lyrics mirror characters' fates
Not a good fit for
- Readers who want fast-paced treasure-hunting adventure and lack patience for operatic passages
- Readers who prefer a single linear romance and avoid multi-sided emotional and calculating plots
- Readers uncomfortable with depictions of gray human nature such as master-disciple betrayal and webs of interest
Reading tips
- Before starting, listen to a piece of Huangmei opera to get a feel for its lilting tunes, then enter the rehearsal scenes of The Falling Qionghua.
- Treat each rehearsal of The Falling Qionghua as a mirror of the character relationships, understanding the lyrics against the circumstances of Mei Leyi and Shan Meimei.
- Around the opening of the treasure, look back at the details of Liu Guiyin's and the master's words and actions to appreciate how the scheme tightens step by step.
- If the thread of the Du family descendant interests you, jot down related foreshadowing as you read and review them together at the end.
About the publisher
Shenzhen Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher whose list spans biography, essays and miscellaneous writings, social psychology, management, documentary literature and social sciences. In biography and documentary writing, it offers translations such as Simone de Beauvoir's "All Said and Done: Beauvoir's Autobiography" and "A Very Easy Death"; in literary essays it includes works by Feng Zikai and Liang Xiaosheng, such as "Years Flow By" and "Riding Out in Spring, Blossoms in Summer Nights." Books on social psychology and thought include Alan Watts's "The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" and "Just Want to Be a Cat or Dog, Free from worldly sorrows." In economics and management there is Zheng Yongnian's "Industrial Policy Transformation: China and the World," and in writing methods, "The Rower: My Entertaining Notes on Creative Writing Training." The library currently holds 137 titles; public information is limited, and the above reflects its publishing directions solely on the basis of its catalog.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 引章
- 梦起
- 上部
- 第一章 霓裳曲
- 第二章 再度出手
- 第三章 春梦
- 第四章 水影
- 第五章 宝藏
- 中奏
- 几双醒眼
- 下部
- 第六章 霓裳雨
- 第七章 美人鱼
- 第八章 霓裳歌
- 第九章 黄金洞
- 第十章 霓裳情
- 第十一章 开了天眼
- 结曲
- 梦圆
- 后记
- 蒋泥著作年表
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About the author
Jiang Ni is an author about whom little public information is available. At present, it is known only that one work, Huangmei Qing (roughly, "Love in Huangmei"), is classified as a social novel. Judging from this category, the writing seems to take social life as its backdrop and to focus on real human relationships and the circumstances of ordinary people, rather than on historical romance or purely literary experimentation. Because biographical details, a chronology of works, and critical commentary are lacking, it is not yet possible to confirm the author's nationality, dates of birth and death, educational background, or the full course of his or her writing career, nor to judge the place of Huangmei Qing within it. On the available evidence, Jiang Ni is an author with few works and limited public information, whose profile emerges mainly through this single social novel. Readers wishing to understand the style should begin with the work's specific narrative and characterization rather than draw excessive inferences from the limited records available.
