Bell and Drum Tower
by Liu Xinwu
About This Novel
"The Bell and Drum Tower" is Liu Xinwu's first novel and won the second Mao Dun Literature Award. This novel tells a story that took place in the Bell and Drum Tower area of Beijing in the early 1980s. It captures the daily lives of nine households in a courtyard under the Bell and Drum Tower in Beijing from 5 a. M. To 5 p. M. On December 12, 1982. What runs through it is the changes that thirty or forty characters have experienced over the past few decades. It describes the historical accumulation of ancient Beijing and the real changes in the 1980s, shows extremely colorful social scenes, tells the joys and sorrows of the city, and the fate of generations, just like a vivid ukiyo-e that opens up the memory of the city... It can be called a modern "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" with a strong Beijing flavor.
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