Half a Lifelong Romance
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.
 cover of 2014 English translation published by Penguin Classics | |||||||
| Author | Eileen Chang | ||||||
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| Original title | 半生緣 | ||||||
| Translator | Karen Kingsbury | ||||||
| Country | China | ||||||
| Language | Chinese | ||||||
| Set in | 20th-century Shanghai and Nanjing | ||||||
Publication date | 1948 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 半生緣 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 半生缘 | ||||||
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The novel was translated to English in 2014 by Karen S. Kingsbury.
Adaptations
- Eighteen Springs, a 1997 Hong Kong film
- Affair of Half a Lifetime, a 2002 Chinese TV series
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