TY - BOOK AU - Zhang,Ailing TI - The rouge of the north SN - 0520210875 (pbk.) : AV - PS3553.H27187 R68 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Married women KW - Fiction KW - China KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh N2 - The story of a beautiful young bride who marries the blind, bedridden son of a rich and noble family. Captive to her in-laws, the young woman sees no hope of change. With the reissue of "The Rouge of the North" and "The Rice Sprout Song", readers will appreciate Eileen Chang's elegant prose style, her harrowing analyses of human motives, and her keen understanding of desire, loneliness, and hunger, both physical and metaphysical ER -