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by Lao She
About This Novel
"Under the Red Flag" is an autobiographical novel by Lao She, written from 1961 to 1962. For readers who like Lao She's works, this book is a must-read. Unfortunately, due to the Cultural Revolution at that time, this work was forced to stop before it was completed. This book contains the completed parts, totaling eleven chapters. In this work, Lao She used autobiography as a clue and Beijing society in the late Qing Dynasty as the background to express social practice and historical changes. Different from his past writings, in this work he has made an outstanding representation of the history of his nation - the living habits of the bannermen in the late Qing Dynasty. This work also gives this work a more unique vision and a more familiar introspective attitude to examine history and national customs. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, social unrest and folk customs were corrupted, and the lives of the banner people became increasingly difficult. During the Gengzi period, with the arrival of the Boxer Rebellion, the seemingly peaceful lives of the obedient people in old Beijing suddenly went into trouble. A series of events that occurred thereafter left the people puzzled and disgraced. The officers and soldiers and regiment members besieged Dongjiaominxiang. The flag soldiers fulfilled their duties. The old abbot of Baoguo Temple also walked into the raging fire with full of resentment... Facing the broken rivers and mountains and the remaining homes, the old Beijing that had withstood the plunder could only remember this history forever in its heart.
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