My Great-grandmother
by Zhao Baitian
About This Novel
This book is the latest novel by Zhao Baitian, a powerful domestic writer and winner of the "Essayist of the Year" award at the Chinese Literature Media Awards. "My great-grandmother" Jin Xian'er was a young woman who came from a wealthy family in a small town in the south. She loved literature and art and pursued progress. She was influenced and led by Communist Party members when she was studying in the provincial capital. She sympathized with the people at the bottom and yearned for revolutionary life. She was even imprisoned for "helping perform tasks" without her knowledge. With the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, due to her special status and being too young, the organization did not arrange for Jin Xian'er to join the guerrillas. Instead, she was asked to return to her hometown of Hong Town and lurk as a primary school teacher, looking for opportunities to promote the Anti-Japanese War. In Hong Town, Yao Xinmin, a doctor of entomology, fell in love with Jin Xian'er at first sight. As they got along day and night, the two became more and more like each other. However, in the face of complex social reality and revolutionary needs, Jin Xian'er was soon sent to Shanghai for telegraph work training and had to say goodbye to Yao Xinmin. Since then, Jin Xianer's fate has been completely involved in the vigorous historical tide. When the revolution needed it most, she sacrificed her love and marriage... While writing the turbulent historical process, the novel focuses on the choices and fate of ordinary intellectual women on the periphery of the organization who long to join the revolution. It reproduces the diversity and complexity of history with rich details and vivid descriptions.
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