# Red Rose, White Rose

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- Authors: [Eileen Chang](https://www.bookquiver.com/eileen-chang)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-02-15

## Description

There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is " moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart. In Eileen Chang's eloquent and evocative novella, Zhenbao is a devoted son, a diligent worker, and guarded in love. But when he meets a friend's spoilt, spirited, desirable wife, he cannot resist her charms, or keep their relationship under his control. As he succumbs to passions and resentments, Red Rose, White Rose is both sensual and restrained.

## Editions

### Red Rose, White Rose

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-050-9
- Published: 2011-02-15
- Language: en_GB