Abstract:Most critics find Fan Liuyuan, the male protagonist in Eileen Chang’s novella “Love in a Fallen City” (1943), to be a simple character. What they fail to take into account, however, is the complexity of Fan Liuyuan’s identity as well as his predicament, both before and after his return to China. By adopting the concept of diaspora, the present study explores how his desire for an absent authentic Chinese culture is developed, and how his failure to come to terms with his hybrid identity in his search for pure … Show more
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