Ancient Ship (Upper and Lower)
by Zhang Wei
About This Novel
"Ancient Ship" is a novel with profound historical and cultural heritage. It describes the ups and downs, joys and sorrows of the Sui, Zhao and Li families in Wali Town on the banks of the Luqing River in Jiaodong for more than 40 years. It truly reproduces the distortion of human nature in that special era and the great changes that occurred in that land under the impact of the tide of reform. The novel vividly depicts the pain and conflicts of an ancient rural area in the rapid historical changes, and was praised by critics as "a heavy monument in the history of the nation." After the publication of "The Ancient Ship", it won many awards including the "Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award" and "People's Literature Award", and was selected into the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly.
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