This work is based on events experienced by my uncle, who was born in the 1950s or 1960s. All the characters in the book are fictional. Perhaps you will recognize yourself or someone you know in them.
This is a story about a web of people whose lives intersect, each contributing a different scene to the city's social landscape. Through the characters' changing fortunes, the city's seasons, loves, hates, and tangled relationships reflect the many facets of society and the human spirit. The things that change and the things that endure in the city's history and landscape point to the continuity of the times and the trends of the future. Whether you like these characters or pay them no mind, they are all leaves on the great tree of the Chinese people.
