Conquer the Devil
by Ma Mingqian
About This Novel
"Conquering the Demons" is set in Dunhuang and tells the history of how the local political power changed from Zhang's Guiyi Army to Cao's Guiyi Army in the Tang Dynasty. As a historical novel, Ma Mingqian uses historical hindsight and the Buddhist concept of "karma" to create a ghostly atmosphere like historical destiny. The author imagines various images that are charmed by his pen, such as eagles, wild antelopes, white snakes, flying birds, King Kong and the demon-conquering mural that is the title of the book. He allows these ghosts to lurk around real historical figures or in their dreams from beginning to end, using a mysterious power to attract readers' reading senses, so that readers who do not know much about the history of Dunhuang and the Guiyi Army can easily be attracted by the clues buried by the author and enter the deeper texture of history.
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