Showing Nanjing 1937: A Love Story by Ye Zhaoyan

Paperback. Pub Date :2004-5-1 Pages: 404 Enormously popular in China. this winning. witty English-language debut by Ye (author of more than 30 books in his native country) traces the unlikely romance between a womanizing professor and the much younger wife of a fighter pilot on the eve of the catastrophic Japanese invasion of Nanjing. Ding Wenyu has been known to storm out of class if there arent enough pretty girls to teach. Hes legendary among his students for his brothel slang and clowning. Outside the classroom. the intemperate Ding bemoans his disintegrating marriage while recklessly seducing countless other women. Hes perpetually drunk and despondent until. at the wedding of one of his colleagues daughters. he falls madly in love-with the bride. Ding discomfits the young Ren Yuyuan with his lovestruck stares. After the wedding. he sends Ren daily love letters and bides...