Contents Briefing
With the background of tremendous changes China's the rural areas in the late 20th century, the book probes into the complex disputes among three families (Sui, Zhao, Li) in Wali Town for more than 40 years so as to make vivid portrait of mental pain and cultural conflict in the throes of the evolution in ancient rural areas. This is a great spiritual history of the nation. This novel vividly depicts changes in character and destiny of several children in the Sui family in the long river of history: The eldest son Baopu experiences the death of his father and the second mother, witnesses the brutality of the previous political movements, and becomes depressed and silent. The second son Jiansu wants to recapture the bean vermicelli factory which has been contracted out to the Zhaos. Beautiful and noble daughter Hanzhang lives in the shadow of fourth grandfather of the Zhaos... Shame and hatred, desire and impulse make they stay in the position to double verification in reality once and once again. Ancient Boat is the most impressive and the most in-depth literary masterpiece in contemporary China, which is "a piece of thick steles in the history of the national heart" From an ancient town, it maps the whole of China, and a river symbolizes endless life, and the vicissitudes of a family express the plight and struggle in the soul. Ancient Boat is China certainly.
Publisher Profile
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
Author Profile
Zhang Wei (1956-) was born in Longkou (Shandong), and his original domicile is in Qixia, Shandong. He has started to publish poetry since 1975 and has published the novels, essays, literary theory and so on since 1980. He joined in Chinese Writers Association in 1983. As a professional writer, he acts as President of Shandong Province Writers Association. Representative works include saga novels (Ancient Boat, Fables in September, Family, Bai Hui, Book from Other Provinces, Miss Manihot, Scandalous Behavior or Romantic, Hedgehog Song); novellas (Record of Yingzhou Thoughts, Anger of Autumn, Seven Kinds of Mushroom); short stories (Winter Scene, Voice, A Lake Of Water, Seaside Snow); proses (Integrate into the Wild, Thoughts at Night, Shynes and Gentleness); long poems (The Road to Convert, Pine Forest) and so on. He has published Zhang Wei's Anthology (volumes 1-10).
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