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"Jing'an 1976" uses the four seasons of summer, autumn, winter and spring as its chapter structure. From the perspective of an eleven or twelve-year-old boy (the protagonist Ge Xiaobao), it depicts the dusty life in Shanghai's alleys in the 1970s, as well as the protagonist's self-growth. The novel captures the ups and downs of the Zhu family, the landlord of Jiangning Road, the Wu family, the former capitalist tenants, the protagonists Xiaobao's family, Xiaojing's family, the musician's family, and the "puller" Ma Hongdi's family in the alley. At the end, the protagonist Xiaobao bids farewell to his childish first love seemingly for no reason, and lets an iron train tell Xiaojing: We will move at full speed towards the unknown future... The novel is based on the lives of ordinary citizens in two residential houses on Jiangning Road and North Shaanxi Road. Through the lively eyes of several male and female primary school students in Xikang Road Primary School, it observes the unique life of residents in the central city of Shanghai in 1976; it uses rich and vivid details and texture to restore the faces of citizens of that era. Use the perspective of a teenager to enter an era of frequent political movements, and fill in the blank pages of the era with a realistic past. "Jing'an 1976" attempts to reshape the real 1970s by relying on profound life experience and long-term reflection on the past, such as vintage wine. In Jing'an Shanghai in the 1970s, there was no addiction to sports or culture, only trivial and dusty life itself. What happens in the alley? What can happen in the alley? The alleys bury the people who only belong to the alleys, and spit out those people who are heading towards a broad future... The language style of the novel is light and self-sustained, telling the story in a light melancholy, and telling it eloquently, with a calm and comfortable maritime style.
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