Bailuyuan (Complete Collection of Mao Dun Literature Award-Winning Works: Collector's Edition)

This is a majestic epic of fifty years of changes in the Weihe Plain, a colorful and thrilling long picture of China's rural villages. Two generations of descendants of a family have been fighting for the dominance of Bailuyuan from generation to generation: they have taken advantage of feng shui, used beauty tricks, filial sons have become bandits, relatives have killed their daughters-in-law, brothers have tortured each other, and lovers have turned against each other... The Great Revolution, the Japanese invasion, and three years of civil war have brought Bailuyuan up and down, royal flags changing, family feuds and national hatreds intertwined, and grievances being retaliated from generation to generation... The ancient land is shaking in the throes of new life. The novel takes Bailu Village on Bailuyuan in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province as a microcosm. By telling the grievances and disputes between three generations of the two families surnamed Bai and Lu, it shows the historical changes that lasted for more than half a century from the late Qing Dynasty to the 1970s and 1980s.