The book collects 6 short stories with themes from love to life, which demonstrates people’s struggle against the life, society and other pressures. Through this book, you can grasp a basic understanding of Chinese people’s lives, their challenges and tenacity.
Chapter one tells a love story between a girl and a married man. Chapter two tells a sad love story in the Republic of China era. Chapter three tells the difficult situation of underprivileged Chinese student in Japan. Chapter four tells the story of a poor farmer in China. Chapter five describes the conflict between an intellectual husband and his peasant wife, and their eventual mutual understanding. Chapter six tells the story of a university professor Mr. J and his family.
However, not all stories have beautiful endings. Sometimes, tragedy is more common. How do Chinese lives look like in previous years? If you have such a question, this book is your best option.
About the author
Zhang Ziping, born in 1893, graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in April 1922. He began writing in 1913 and published his novel The Water of the Yuetan River in January 1920. His representative work is the novel Alluvial Fossils. In 1934, he became chief editor of National Literature, a nationalistic literary publication where he created a large number of romantic novels, with an anti-feudal tendency, which simply the triangular or polygonal relationship between men and women.
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