New Era of Marriage
by Wang Hailu
About This Novel
"New Marriage Era" is a novel written by writer Wang Hailu. As the final work of his "Marriage Trilogy", it continues the realistic analysis of contemporary marriage and love relationships. The work takes the cultural differences between urban and rural areas as an entry point to show the collision between traditional ethics and modern values in Chinese society during the transition period. The novel revolves around the marriage of Gu Xiaoxi, an urban intellectual woman, and He Jianguo, a rural youth from Yimeng Mountain. It reveals the impact of the urban-rural divide on marriage through conflicts such as family involvement and conflicts in living habits. The subplot includes the sibling relationship between Gu Xiaohang and his older colleague, and the twilight love between Gu's father and the nanny in the mountainous area. The three sets of misplaced love and marriage models are intertwined to present the ethical dilemmas faced by different generations and classes. The author uses realistic techniques to describe the penetration of material factors and family status concepts into marriage, and explores the complex entanglement between individual freedom and family responsibility in marriage relationships in modern society.
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