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海上花
hǎi​shàng​huā

flowers on the sea

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  • 海上花列传 hǎi​shàng​huā​liè​zhuàn The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
    A classic novel by Han Bangqing published in 1894; it depicts the lives of courtesans in Shanghai's foreign settlements using Suzhou dialect and was famously translated by Eileen Chang into English and Mandarin
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