Bailuyuan: Upper, Middle and Lower (humanities Classics Library)
About This Novel
This is a majestic epic of fifty years of changes in the Weihe Plain, a colorful and thrilling long picture of China's rural villages. Two generations of descendants of a family have been fighting for the dominance of Bailuyuan from generation to generation: they exploit feng shui, use beauty tricks, a filial son becomes a bandit, a father-in-law kills his daughter-in-law, brothers love each other, lovers turn against each other... The Great Revolution, the Japanese invasion, and three years of civil war, Bailuyuan is ups and downs, the king's flag changes, family feuds and national hatreds are intertwined, and grievances are repaid from generation to generation... The ancient land is shaking in the throes of new life. The novel takes Bailu Village on Bailuyuan in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province as a microcosm. By telling the grievances and disputes between three generations of two families named Bai and Lu, it shows the historical changes that lasted for more than half a century from the late Qing Dynasty to the 1970s and 1980s.
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