Kuixing Tower
by Xu Peng
About This Novel
The sky is filled with beacon fire, the mountains and rivers are burning, and the spring and autumn dance is performed on the nine-foot stage. The novel "Kui Xing Tower" is the second part of Xu Peng's modern trilogy series and a companion volume to the novel "Taipingmen". The book takes the warlords' melee and the turbulent revolutionary years from the early 1920s to the late 1930s as the grand historical background of the story. It integrates the construction process of the theater "Kixing Tower" and the cultural heritage of Sichuan and Chongqing represented by Sichuan Opera throughout the story. The narrative of the ups and downs of political ideal choices, changes in social life, encounters with cultural traditions, and changes in life encounters vividly depicts the personal destiny of small figures from various forces and their close relationship with the changes in the larger historical era, thus providing a further insight into the magnificent picture of the revolutionary development in the Sichuan and Chongqing regions of China at that time.
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