Youjian Library: under Zhenghong
by Lao She
About This Novel
"Under the Red Flag" is the posthumous work of Lao She's unfinished autobiographical novel, with a total of eleven chapters and one hundred and sixty-four pages in manuscript. On August 24, 1966, Lao She drowned himself in Taiping Lake in Beijing. This work and his life came to an abrupt end. Lao She is a bannerman and belongs to the "Zhenghong Banner" of the "Eight Banners of Manchuria", which is also the origin of the title of the book. Lao She started writing from his birth, which was the end of the Qing Dynasty, when society was in turmoil and people's livelihood was in decline. Seeing the decline of the Qing Dynasty, the pampered Eight Banners disciples were also struggling... With the rise of the Boxer Rebellion and the arrival of foreigners, the peaceful life of the Beijing people was broken. Each character came to life in Lao She's writings: the honest father, the kind and upright shopkeeper Wang, the mean aunt, the smart and capable second brother Fuhai, the arrogant Pastor Niu... These people of the Qing Dynasty who were in the turbulent historical torrent all moved towards different fates...
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