Beijing Man

About This Novel

"Beijing man" Zhang Dong, a child who grew up wildly in a pavilion in Nancheng in the 1980s. Since childhood, he, Fa Xiao Shanlin, Er Tou, and Lang Sao'er have lived under the glare of the military college students and the snobbery of the teachers, and established their own rules of survival in the cramped alleys and fists. From getting into fights with gangsters in junior high school for being a "wife patter," to being imprisoned for football riots in high school, he brought with him an alley's stubbornness and unwillingness to bear witness to the sudden changes in the fortunes of the people around him: Shan Lin dropped out of school because of love, Er Duo sold vegetables and dominated, Lang Sao Er was caught scalping votes, and Da Tou was shot during the "severe crackdown." When his dream of college entrance examination was shattered, he was forced to go south to Guangzhou to resell cigarettes with Shan Lin, and boarded the green train with a huge sum of 100,000 yuan. Amidst the glare of swords in the roller skating rink, the riots in the workers' sports, the cigarette market in Guangzhou and the rules of Ma Liu, he stumbled into an adult world where money, desire and danger are intertwined. This is a life record of a "social university" spanning Beijing, Baoding, and Guangzhou. It is also a cruel and true footnote to the term "Beijing men" written by a generation of people with their youth, blood and pain in the torrent of reform and opening up.

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