I Am a Floating Flower: the Survival Record of a Working Girl in Dongguan 2
by Fang Yixue
About This Novel
After the founding of New China, there were two large-scale nationwide population movements. The first time was when educated youth went to the mountains and countryside starting in 1955. Countless urban people rushed to the vast world of rural areas with enthusiasm and became glorious educated youth; the second time was since the reform and opening up in 1978. Hundreds of millions of rural people or urban poor left their hometowns and became migrant workers. Both of these population flows are dominated by young people. The difference is that educated youths move from cities to rural areas, while most migrant workers move from rural areas to cities.
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The Survival Record of a Migrant Girl in Dongguan 2: I am a Floating Flower - Book Review
The author writes about the later FKS, which is a microcosm of a country, and writes about its emotional entanglements and subsequent positions, just to use the relationship with the two presidents to explain in a deeper level the root cause of the suffering of migrant workers from all aspects of politics, economy and culture, that is, the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and the exploiters and the exploited, is irreconcilable. However, some superficial people only interpret it from the perspective of male love and female love, and even attack the heroine's character, which really fails the author's good intentions.
The ending is so bloody. . .
The more it is whitewashed, the more fake it becomes, so fake it makes people's teeth hurt... The breakup between Haiyan and Kang Jiye was already bloody enough, but after Wang Lei arrived, Haiyan still abandoned Wang Lei, which made people feel so bad that it was as disgusting and uncomfortable as eating a fly...
The first part is more grounded, while the second part is too humanistic and fictional. I don't even know what kind of person "Haiyan" is. To put it harshly, she really sounds like a green tea bitch! Sometimes, for the sake of their own interests and future, they still do unnatural things, but they still pretend to be superior! If you want to be bad, do it thoroughly, and if you want to stay true to your original intention, then you don't violate your conscience. What does this mean?
Why wasn't this book made into a TV series? Why can't the portrayal of struggling grassroots lives be shown on TV? There are so many TV dramas about the lives of rich ladies and rich people, I really get tired of watching them! Those of us who live in the lower classes wish we had some TV series about our work and life! We, poor children from the mountains with low education, are among the thousands of migrant girls and wage earners who are working hard on the front line. It really corresponds to the sentence in the book, girls are like floating flowers, boys are like grass without roots! After working so hard, when I go home during the Chinese New Year, I still have nothing! I don't know what the meaning of life is!
The novel deeply exposes the dark side behind the prosperity of today's society. Art comes from life, but is higher than life. I believe that many of the details in the novel are the author's personal experiences, but there are also elements of exaggeration in them, which is shocking to read. Most of the content described in the article is actually very unfamiliar to me who was born in the late 1980s, but many of the things described in the article can be confirmed from the mouths of older fellow villagers. I often complain about the unfairness of fate. After reading the novel, I finally understand how lucky our life is.
What a pity Haiyan In the end, I was not with the one I loved But in reality, there are really too few people like this. In addition to oppression, exploitation, rights and money The beauty of human nature has been drowned I wish all lovers in the world will eventually get married Good people have a safe life This novel really reflects the true feelings of the workers in the 1970s and 1980s! ! ! Hats off to them! ! ! ! ! !
There are so many good people who want to marry her, but he does this and that. Just go home and find someone you want. Since you can act casually and don't feel wronged, why don't you agree in the first place?
It is meant to imitate Dream of Red Mansions! Use the tragedy of love to criticize society! Many people think it is romance, but it is not.
It should be said that these two books are very good: they write about the dark side of society, and the author strives to show the positive image of the heroine. But in the end, Wang Lei did not choose love. Does this mean that this last righteous person was also swallowed up by the dark society?
Why don't you go with Wang Lei, or Wang Lei stay? Wang Lei is true love.
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The Survival Record of a Migrant Girl in Dongguan 2: I am a Floating Flower - Book Review
The author writes about the later FKS, which is a microcosm of a country, and writes about its emotional entanglements and subsequent positions, just to use the relationship with the two presidents to explain in a deeper level the root cause of the suffering of migrant workers from all aspects of politics, economy and culture, that is, the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and the exploiters and the exploited, is irreconcilable. However, some superficial people only interpret it from the perspective of male love and female love, and even attack the heroine's character, which really fails the author's good intentions.
The ending is so bloody. . .
The more it is whitewashed, the more fake it becomes, so fake it makes people's teeth hurt... The breakup between Haiyan and Kang Jiye was already bloody enough, but after Wang Lei arrived, Haiyan still abandoned Wang Lei, which made people feel so bad that it was as disgusting and uncomfortable as eating a fly...
The first part is more grounded, while the second part is too humanistic and fictional. I don't even know what kind of person "Haiyan" is. To put it harshly, she really sounds like a green tea bitch! Sometimes, for the sake of their own interests and future, they still do unnatural things, but they still pretend to be superior! If you want to be bad, do it thoroughly, and if you want to stay true to your original intention, then you don't violate your conscience. What does this mean?
Why wasn't this book made into a TV series? Why can't the portrayal of struggling grassroots lives be shown on TV? There are so many TV dramas about the lives of rich ladies and rich people, I really get tired of watching them! Those of us who live in the lower classes wish we had some TV series about our work and life! We, poor children from the mountains with low education, are among the thousands of migrant girls and wage earners who are working hard on the front line. It really corresponds to the sentence in the book, girls are like floating flowers, boys are like grass without roots! After working so hard, when I go home during the Chinese New Year, I still have nothing! I don't know what the meaning of life is!
The novel deeply exposes the dark side behind the prosperity of today's society. Art comes from life, but is higher than life. I believe that many of the details in the novel are the author's personal experiences, but there are also elements of exaggeration in them, which is shocking to read. Most of the content described in the article is actually very unfamiliar to me who was born in the late 1980s, but many of the things described in the article can be confirmed from the mouths of older fellow villagers. I often complain about the unfairness of fate. After reading the novel, I finally understand how lucky our life is.
What a pity Haiyan In the end, I was not with the one I loved But in reality, there are really too few people like this. In addition to oppression, exploitation, rights and money The beauty of human nature has been drowned I wish all lovers in the world will eventually get married Good people have a safe life This novel really reflects the true feelings of the workers in the 1970s and 1980s! ! ! Hats off to them! ! ! ! ! !
There are so many good people who want to marry her, but he does this and that. Just go home and find someone you want. Since you can act casually and don't feel wronged, why don't you agree in the first place?
It is meant to imitate Dream of Red Mansions! Use the tragedy of love to criticize society! Many people think it is romance, but it is not.
It should be said that these two books are very good: they write about the dark side of society, and the author strives to show the positive image of the heroine. But in the end, Wang Lei did not choose love. Does this mean that this last righteous person was also swallowed up by the dark society?
Why don't you go with Wang Lei, or Wang Lei stay? Wang Lei is true love.
