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Lust, caution and other stories
Lust, caution and other stories | Eileen Chang, Ailing Zhang
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In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhi's life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin's bullet. Yet as she waits for him to arrive at their liaison, Jiazhi begins to wonder if she is cut out to be a femme fatale and coldly take Mr Yi to his death. Or is she beginning to fall in love with him? A passionate tale of espionage, deception and love, Lust, Caution is accompanied here by four further dazzling short stories by Eileen Chang.
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The title story starts off as a kind of noir thriller and blew me away when I got into the rhythm of it. The rest of these stories are so of a time and place I know nothing about and just kept me enthralled. These don‘t deal outright with the politics of Shanghai during the war but of the people living there. The modern and the old grate against each other whilst people just try to go about their lives as usual. Continued in comments

Weaponxgirl Since I don‘t know much about the time period in Shanghai or certain Chinese customs, traditions or proper etiquette I did feel like sometimes I was missing on the subtlety of what some of these stories were telling me but I loved just being transported to a world I don‘t know well at all. 5y
Weaponxgirl She is also a writer who describes the physical world around in quite a lot of detail which adds to the sense of place. Things such as gold chains on a cloak so as not to appear vulgar. I will be searching out more from this author and maybe trying to do some research on what life was like then 5y
Weaponxgirl A #womenintranslation book and part of my #readingwomenchallenge2019 in the thriller by a woc prompt 5y
Emilymdxn Sounds amazing! Stacked 5y
Weaponxgirl @Emilymdxn I forgot to say it also has a pronunciation guide in the back and the afterword is really useful and interesting too. Made me appreciate the stories even more. (edited) 5y
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