The Golden Cangue PDF
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Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang), an important novelist and short story writer, has achieved fame in China's postrevolutionary period. A talented Chinese-English translator, Zhang has translated her own novelette The Golden Cangue (Jin sou ji), inspired by the Dream of the Red Chamber, an eighteenth-century Chinese novel. The story continues in later lengthier versions: The Embittered Woman (Yuan nu) and The Rouge of the North, which she wrote in English. Zhang's Nightmare in the Red Chamber discusses the classical source of The Golden Cangue.
The Golden Cangue illustrates the decadence of the idle rich. Set in Shanghai, the novelette unfolds the degeneration of the heroine, Qi Qiao, and her family. The golden cangue symbolizes the destructiveness of the protagonist, who metaphorically bears the frame used to hold prisoners in old China; she is both imprisoned and imprisoning. She uses the golden cangue as a way of mutilating others psychologically, while the instrument ironically stands for her own exploitation. The motifs of moon, madness, and mutilation and the themes of exploitation, moral degeneration, and destruction merge with images and symbols of the moon, gold and green, and the cangue.
The Golden Cangue illustrates the decadence of the idle rich. Set in Shanghai, the novelette unfolds the degeneration of the heroine, Qi Qiao, and her family. The golden cangue symbolizes the destructiveness of the protagonist, who metaphorically bears the frame used to hold prisoners in old China; she is both imprisoned and imprisoning. She uses the golden cangue as a way of mutilating others psychologically, while the instrument ironically stands for her own exploitation. The motifs of moon, madness, and mutilation and the themes of exploitation, moral degeneration, and destruction merge with images and symbols of the moon, gold and green, and the cangue.
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