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  A Trilogy of Jiangnan consists of a series of long, yet masterly composed, works. Having initially been conceived during the middle of the 1990s, they underwent deep changes and was finished in 2011. W...

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  The novel reflectsonaturbulent history of humanreproduction over six decades in Chinese countryside through relating the life of Auntie, a country doctor with more than fifty years of experience in obs...

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  Xu Mao and His Daughters unfolds around the entry of the CPC working party into a mountainous village in Sichuans Tuojiang River area in winter 1975 and centers around the Xu family. Against the backgr...

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  MoviesSet in Wang Zengqi’s hometown of Gaoyou

  
  

  Set in Wang Zengqis hometown of Gaoyou, A Moment at Lake Danao starts by describing the area and its spirit before moving onto the lives of the people there the tinsmiths, the porters, the constables. ...

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  Jerusalem is a story about several young people Chu Pingyang, Yang Jie, Yi Changan and Qin Fuxiao who left their hometown in Huajie Street for Beijing, and ultimately come back for a reunion. Their joy...

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  Middle Age was published in 1980, four years after the end of the Cultural Revolution. Back then, intellectuals, who had suffered persecution and deprivation during the Cultural Revolution, still faile...

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  Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House first published Without Words in 1998. Revolving aroundthe life of the female writer Wu Wei, it tells the story of the marriages of the protagonistand other...

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  Ground Covered with Chicken Feathers is a representative work in the neorealist movement. The novel uses the trivialities of the Lin familys daily life to display the difficulties and hardships encount...