The Frontiers of Love

By Diana Chang

Book Overview

Set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1945, The Frontiers of Love passes effortlessly in and out of Asian and Western fields of reference to explore the issue of cultural identity in a city dominated by Western colonialism. Diana Chang uses psychologial portrayal, historical narrative, and sociological observation to achieve a multidimensional view of a city both Chinese and Western, liberating and oppressive, national and international. As the character Feng observes of Shanghai, "Strictly speaking, it could not be called Chinese, though it was inhabited mostly by Chinese - Chinese who were either wealthy, Westernized, or prayed to a Christian God."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295973269
• ISBN13: 9780295973265
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A Universal Talent

Diana Chang is a talented novelist and poet. Her other novels are unfortunately out of print and should be released again. Ms. Chang is featured in several Asian-American anthologies, but it isn't fair to just categorize her in this way. Her work is universal and doesn't just speak to Asians or Asian-Americans or Eurasians. I definitely recommend this book, as well as her novel 'Eye for Eye', and her collections of poetry.