Love and Revolution: A Novel About Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen

Ping Lu; Translated by Nancy Du

Paper, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13853-6
$18.95 / £10.95

September, 2006
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13852-9
$26.50 / £15.50

"[Ping Lu] succeeds in showing the ordinary and sometimes repugnant details of Qingling's life." — Perry Link, New York Review of Books

"Love and Revolution successfully conjures a bleak vision of turbulent modern Chinese history, coupled with a deep sense of lament." — Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, assistant professor of Oriental languages and literatures, The University of Texas, Austin

"Love and Revolution offers very powerful portrayals of Sun Yat-sen's sense of torment at his apparent failure and Song Qingling's crumbling sensuality as she is abandoned, confined, and manipulated. Ping Lu's ability to describe the mental and physical conditions of aging, even dying, along with Song's need for a sensual life, makes this a very powerful work." — Joseph R. Allen, professor of Chinese literature and chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Fiction

Series

• Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan

About the Author

Ping Lu has written a diverse range of novels, including a short story about the life of Song May-ling and Chiang Kai-shek. Nancy Du is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University and National Taiwan Normal University.

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