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Fortress Besieged

  • 商品編號: 19028519
  • 出版社: Penguin UK

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Set in the 1930s it follows the misadventures of Fang Hung-chien (Fang Hongjian), a bumbling everyman who wastes his time studying abroad, and secures a fake degree when learning he has run out of money and must return home to China. The first part of the novel is set on the boat home, where Fang courts two young ladies.

Fang was the son of a country gentleman. A marriage had been arranged for him while at university, but the intended wife died before he could see her. After completing a degree in Chinese literature, he went to Europe where he studied at several universities without pursuing a degree. After being pressured by his family, he bought a fake degree from an American Irishman.

The year was 1937, and Fang was returning to China from Europe along with other graduating Chinese students. One fellow traveller was Miss Su, in her late 20s. She is quite pretty in a thin and pallid style, but her choosy attitude towards men means she is still unattached and getting slightly desperate. Another young lady on board was Miss Pao, who tended towards the tanned and voluptuous. Fang pursued Miss Bao with some success during the voyage. However, when the boat reached Hong Kong, Miss Pao disembarked into the embrace of her fiancee, a middle-aged, balding doctor, and Fang realised he had been used.

紅海早過了,船在印度洋面上開駛著,量是太陽依然不饒人地遲落早起,侵占去大部分的夜。夜彷彿紙浸了油,變成半透明體;它給太陽擁抱住了,分不出身來,也許是給太陽陶醉了,所以夕照晚霞隱褪後的夜色也帶著酡紅。到紅消醉醒,船艙裡的睡人也一身膩汗地醒來,洗了澡趕到甲板上吹海風,又是一天開始。這是七月下旬,合中國舊曆的三伏,一年最熱的時候。在中國熱得更比常年利害,事後大家都說是兵戈之象,因為這就是民國二十六年(一九三七年)。

Fang then became more intimate with Miss Su. However, after they disembarked at Shanghai, Fang became occupied with finding a job, and attending matchmaking sessions arranged by his parents and former in-laws. After one failed attempt, Fang decided to contact Miss Su. While visiting her he also met her cousin, Miss T'ang, and Miss Su's suitor, Chao Hsin-mei.

The second section follows his securing a teaching post at a new university - where his fake credentials are used to keep him in line, and in the third part, it centers on his disastrous marriage. The novel ends with his wife leaving him, while he listens to a clock chiming.
 



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