http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=002549632124328&rtmo=wKtlwtlb&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/01/6/16/batca16.html Saturday 16 June 2001
'I have only written a love story'
With its graphic portrayal of sexuality, Wei Hui's first
novel Shanghai Baby has caused a scandal in China.
She talks to Tom Cox
FOR someone who has been labelled " decadent ", "debauched" and "a slave
of Western culture" by her home country's media, the woman huddled over a
cup of tea by the log fire in the corner of the room is a surprisingly slight
presence. I reach out and shake an origami hand.
"I've just finished your book," I tell its author,
just to make sure this is the Wei Hui
(pronounced "Way Way") who has incensed the
Chinese authorities with her portrayal of
rampant female sexuality and Western-inspired
moral degeneracy, and not another Wei Hui,
perhaps one famous for making the Chinese
authorities cups of tea. "Oh, good. Did you like
it?"
I did and I didn't. For anyone who's tried a little
too hard with Kerouac or Burroughs, Shanghai
Baby occupies a familiar
great-at-three-in-the-morning,
not-so-good-in-cold-light-of-day landscape. A
young waitress goes on a voyage of discovery in
modern-day Shanghai, flitting between two
lovers: Chinese Tian (who provides the emotional connection) and German
Mark (who provides sex - often violently). Her ultimate discovery, however,
is rambling and vague: if anything, a rather bleak view of the inflexible barrier
between true love and great sex, set against a raging, beautiful urban
backdrop.
全文请看上面联结。
这是我第一次看到卫慧的照片,不知象不象。我猜是她随身携带的“艺术照”交给记者的。一般英国报纸的记者好象不会拍成那样(带柔光的)。
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