Shanghai Polka at Night
by Zhu Xiaolin
About This Novel
"Shanghai Polka at Night" consists of 7 novellas. These novels are mainly supported and constructed by two clues: one is the Chinese people going abroad under the call of the "overseas dream" and their life experiences in a foreign country; the other is the magical urban life in Shanghai. These two clues are sometimes cleverly intertwined, creating a certain tension and "quasi-intertextual" effect between the texts. In this collection of novels, the Chinese people's "overseas dream" is not beautiful. They suffer from the difficulties of survival in a foreign land and even encounter ruthless reality. In the end, they have no choice but to return to their motherland. In the mirror image of Shanghai, the city's endless prosperity and splendor are also wrapped up in the various aspects of the world and the ups and downs of people. There are both indifference and isolation, but also warmth and integration, just like a tango dance reaching its peak, infinite excitement and various scenery. In contemporary China, where local traditions are deeply rooted, it is not easy to tell an urban story well, because, to a certain extent, we are all "foreigners" and "foreigners" involuntarily. However, Chinese cities in the past ten years of the new century have epitomized the huge fission of the entire era. Depicting urban life and revealing human existence is the literary pursuit and potential mission of the "Stranger Novels" book series. The first five volumes focus on the concentrated and topical phenomena of current urban life, such as houses, marriage, education, medical care, academic chaos, support or not, demolition compensation, etc., Showing the "explosion and cracking" in the depths of the times. This is not only a set of contemporary ukiyo-e, but also a "history of the soul" under the tip of the pen.
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