Half a Lifelong RomanceBy: Eileen Chang Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his familys efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry her. But dark circumstancesa lustful brother in law, a treacherous sister, a family secretforce the two young lovers apart. As Manzhen and Shijun go on their separate paths, they lose track of one another, and their