''Jade Love'' (玉卿嫂) is a 1960 Taiwanese novella by

Pai Hsien-yung Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (; born July 11, 1937) is a Chinese writer from Taiwan who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Pai's father was the Kuomintang (KMT) ge ...

, first published in the magazine '' Xiandai wenxue'' (co-founded by Pai). Written in first person and told through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy, the story takes place in

Guilin Guilin ( Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''; alternatively romanized as Kweilin) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the west bank of the Li River and borders Hunan to the nort ...

, China (the author's hometown) during the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

English translation

* (translated by Nancy Chang Ing)

Adaptations

* ''Jade Love'' (film), a 1984 Taiwanese film starring Elsa Yang as Jade Love * ''Jade Love'' (1997 TV series), a 1997 Taiwanese TV series starring Hsu Kuei-ying as Jade Love * ''Jade Love'' (2006 TV series), a 2006 Chinese TV series starring

Jiang Wenli Jiang Wenli (, born 20 June 1969) is a Chinese actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. A native of Tianjin, she graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1992. Li ranked 52nd on ''Forbes'' China Celebrity 100 list in 2014. Early life Jia ...

as Jade Love 1960 novels Novels set in Guangxi Novels by Pai Hsien-yung {{Pai Hsien-yung