The Road of Medicine: A Village Doctor's Struggle

A passionate rural youth who loves traditional Chinese medicine and dreams of "healing the world and saving lives" pursues an education and sets out on the path to becoming a doctor. After enduring romantic setbacks and the hardships of life, he comes into his own and writes a remarkable story of his life.

Set primarily in Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, and Changsha in Hunan Province, the novel features characters born in the 1970s and portrays the lives of ordinary people in the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan region from the 1960s to the early 21st century. It is the first local novel ever to depict the everyday life of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan region against the backdrop of Zhuzhou, Hunan. This is Duan Xiaolou (Ziche Wuyang)'s second full-length work of contemporary fiction.