
Taipingmen
by Xu Peng
About This Novel
"Taipingmen" is a novel based on the early revolution in Sichuan and Chongqing and the growth of young students studying in France for work-study studies. It tells the story of the Sichuan-Chongqing people's search for the truth of national salvation and the path to revolution in the ten years from 1910, when the Sichuan-Hankou Railway was being built, to 1920, when the first batch of graduates from the Chongqing Preparatory School for Studying in France went to France to work-study. There are seventeen chapters in total in the book. The storyline is laid out using a combination of fiction and reality, with important historical facts as the framework, and the fictional main characters such as Xu Chunfeng, Xin Youguo, Hua Shaochang, and Hua Xiansheng as the main line. It vividly tells the story of how the seeds of revolution are quietly sprouting throughout Sichuan and even the country, and the revolutionary movements brewing and happening everywhere are impacting the decadent and stubborn feudal dynasty again and again. The author's writing style is simple and delicate, with strong emotions. He is good at using vivid language with local characteristics to make the characters in the novel come alive on the page. On the occasion of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the publication of this book is of great significance to commemorate the eighty-three revolutionary young men in history who traveled across the ocean in search of the truth to save the country, and to commemorate the century-old memory of seeking peace outside the Taiping Gate.
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