Shanghai's Romantic Encounters

How does Shanghai's vibrant, ever-flowing romance and elegance transition from the dust of history into the present-day charm? The decades-long transformations of cafes that serve as the city's living rooms, the streets preserved forever in their original width to safeguard urban memory, the lingering spirits of Eileen Chang, Bai Xianyong, Ke Ling, Fu Lei, and He Youzhi lingering in homes where people have come and gone; the awkward history of foreign literary classics, treasured by young literary enthusiasts, during the era of white-covered books; the Shanghai of over a century ago, gazing back at us through the lenses of French missionaries; and the fashionable women who, under the guise of strolling, unobtrusively yet relentlessly vied for attention along Huaihai Road...Endless reflections on the vicissitudes of life, the past and present of ordinary alleys, the contentment found in mundane existence... Chen Danyan's delicate, refined, and at times acerbic intuition combines cool sensibility with striking contrasts, guiding readers through Shanghai's past and present.Shanghai's Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon has undergone four editions, with the author and readers agreeing to enrich it with new content and chapters every five years. In this latest edition, Chen Danyan has added a new section to each chapter, incorporating fresh chapters covering 2015-2020 onto the original open-ended structure. The text has expanded by nearly 40,000 words, and dozens of new images have been added.