This article compares Eileen Cheng's The Romance in the Fallen City and Wang Anyi's. The Everlasting Regret in the three Key aspects of allusions, time and metaphors, using as the point of penetration the fact that the heroines of the two works both t...
This article compares Eileen Cheng's The Romance in the Fallen City and Wang Anyi's. The Everlasting Regret in the three Key aspects of allusions, time and metaphors, using as the point of penetration the fact that the heroines of the two works both take the female role of Bengbeng Opera (the old name for Pingju, a traditional type of opera Shanghai) as their prototype. Through tracing the evolution from The Romance in the Fallen city to The Everlasting Regret, I attempts to find the emergence, development and variation of the prototype of female roles of Bengbeng Opera.