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- Book: Changhen Ge / The Everlasting Regret
- Chinese: 长恨歌
- Author: Anyi Wang
- Year: 1996
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Changhen Ge (1996) received the Mao Dun Literature Award,
China's top honor for full-length novels, and was voted
the most influential literary work of the 90s. The academia
called the novel an epic, a visionary exploration of history and
personal experience. Its success was credited to its Shanghai
relevance and Old Shanghai nostalgia. It was regarded as
the work that revived the Shanghai style of art and literature
in the 1930s and 1940s, a very yielding and subtle style
portraying the city's old lanes and the people's practicality,
small-mindedness and small lives. Its romance, glamour and
ultimate affirmation of traditional morality also appealed to
the modern young reader.
In 2005, Changhen Ge was released as a motion picture Everlasting Regret, directed by Stanley Kwan.
