Under the Banner of Zhenghong
by Lao She
About This Novel
"Under the Red Flag" is Lao She's autobiographical novel. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, social unrest and folk customs were corrupted, and the lives of the banner people became increasingly difficult. In this historical background, the author uses his own birth and growth as a line to show readers the changes in social customs and history, especially the mental state and living habits of the bannermen in the late Qing Dynasty at that time. Each character comes to life in Lao She's writings: the dutiful but embarrassed father, the kind but conservative shopkeeper Wang, the capable but confused second brother Fuhai, the poor but arrogant aunt, the fastidious but living in a trap of fastidiousness... In the turbulent torrent of history, they have moved towards a fate that seems accidental but is inevitable.
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