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Half a Lifelong Romance

Half a Lifelong Romance
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cover of 2014 English translation published by Penguin Classics
Author Eileen Chang
Original title 半生緣 Ban Sheng Yuan
Translator Karen Kingsbury
Country China
Language Chinese
Set in 20th-century Shanghai
Publication date
1948

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.



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