The Fourth Ward (humanities Reading and Collection·liangyou Literature Series)
by Ba Jin
About This Novel
"Humanities Reading and Collection·Liangyou Literature Series: The Fourth Ward" uses a patient's eighteen-day diary to truly reproduce the living conditions of small people in the suffering and complex real life of old China. In the fourth ward, if you have money, you can enjoy privileges. If you don't have money, you can only wail in the hospital bed and wait to die. Inpatients have to spend their own money to buy medicines and daily necessities. The workers are indifferent and callous. Even if the doctor has superb medical skills, he cannot save the patient's life without special medicines. The patient's survival dilemma is nakedly reflected... And the fourth ward with such indifference and harsh environment still has a constant flow of customers. The book is mainly based on the conversations of patients in the fourth ward, conveying the author's questioning of life and humanitarian compassion. Just like the author said at the end of the book: Each of us "should become kind, pure, and useful to others."
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