This fiction is a winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. Although the plots of this fiction seem to conflict with the traditional ethics, it vividly portrays the complex and hard life in China's rural area over a period of 50 years. Written in a realistic style, this novel emphatically depicts a number of artistic images with distinctive personalities. The story is narrated in a language with strong local flavor.
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The people's Literature Publishing House, founded in March 1951, is a national publishing institution whose subsidiary is the Foreign Literature Publishing House. It has published a considerable amount of classic Chinese literary works, representative works of modern and contemporary literature and Chinese versions of outstanding overseas literary works, as well as works on literary theories and children's books etc. Books published over the years have formed an excellent series of public... more about