War and Love
by Tang Degang
About This Novel
This is Tang Degang's only full-length novel, and together with "Memoirs of Li Zongren", it is known as "the two gems in literature and history". The original title of the novel was "Three Days and Two Nights", with the first part "How Much I Know of the Past" and the second part "Last Night's Dream". The story begins after the normalization of relations between China and the United States. Over the course of three days and two nights, China's changes in half a century are described in flashback. "Although it is a novel, it is also a comprehensive report of some real stories that I have seen and heard." It only serves as a testimony to the troubled modern China and the nightmare of those little people who have gone through many vicissitudes and suffered a lot; it leaves some traces of the lost society, things that will never come back, and the tragic "War of Resistance". In this 600,000-word long work, Tang Degang was the first to mention the history of "comfort women." Later, the issue of "comfort women" became more heated, and the Japanese also noticed the material in this book. This is a portrayal of the great times, a story of the Chinese people; it is both a documentary novel and an oral history.
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Official(3)Scraped 2d ago
During this period of history, these people who were active in the old era will also step off the stage of history one by one, never to return again. No matter how you read these stories, these people and things will never happen again in our future era.
He himself went through the Anti-Japanese War, the Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and then went to study abroad. It was like a drama passing before his eyes. He is the audience and he is also the actor. Because of those turmoils, Professor Tang saw them with his own eyes.
Those years, those changes, were the earth-shaking changes in China from the Republic of China to the 20th century. Professor Tang Degang's own family background was like the protagonist Lin Wensun in the book, with a huge mansion and a grand view garden with a large population.
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Official(3)Scraped 2d ago
During this period of history, these people who were active in the old era will also step off the stage of history one by one, never to return again. No matter how you read these stories, these people and things will never happen again in our future era.
He himself went through the Anti-Japanese War, the Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and then went to study abroad. It was like a drama passing before his eyes. He is the audience and he is also the actor. Because of those turmoils, Professor Tang saw them with his own eyes.
Those years, those changes, were the earth-shaking changes in China from the Republic of China to the 20th century. Professor Tang Degang's own family background was like the protagonist Lin Wensun in the book, with a huge mansion and a grand view garden with a large population.
