Escape from Jinghuang Town

Among the mountain ranges of China's central region, the largest is the eastern branch of the Kunlun Mountains. In China, it is generally known as the Qinling Mountains, stretching east from Tibet almost to the Pacific coast. Mount Funiu is an extension of the Qinling range. It is shaped like a reclining ox, hence the name Mount Funiu. Its dark mountains seem boundless, with peaks layered one upon another and ranges stretching without end. Tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves, poisonous insects, and wild beasts abound there. The wilderness is uninhabited, and thorns grow everywhere. Amid these vast mountains, some sought shelter from the turmoil of war, while others searched for a chance to survive. Here and there, isolated villages and towns remained cut off from the rest of the world. The story takes place long ago, during the Republican era, in a small town surrounded by mountains in the eight-hundred-li stretch of Mount Funiu.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.