Veil
About This Novel
This book is based on the author's personal experience of traveling in China from 1919 to 1920. The story takes place in the British colony of Hong Kong and a place called "Meitan Mansion" in inland China. The heroine Katie Finn had an affair with Charlie, the assistant chief secretary of Hong Kong. Her husband Walter (a bacteriologist in the Hong Kong government) found out and forced her to go to Meitan Mansion where cholera was rampant. Unfortunately, Walter eventually contracted the disease and died. Katie returned to Hong Kong and fell into the arms of Charlie. She was so ashamed that she finally returned to the UK to reconcile with her father and went to live with her father in the Bahamas. From the book, readers can see the ambiguity and contradiction behind a seemingly indifferent narrator: as a part of the imperial narrative, the author's orientalist political and cultural views are hidden under the veil; as an individual writer who pays attention to human nature, his doubts and longing for love, ridicule and tolerance of human nature are hidden under his veil.
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