Northeast China’s Past: The Bandit Chronicles, The Bandit’s Wife

Bandits are also called “bearded ones” in Northeast China. In other words, they are outlaws. This is how people in Northeast China lived through the turbulent years from the 1920s to Liberation. It is a portrait of life around Changbai Mountain in the 1920s. Here you’ll find shocking vendettas, the beastly abuse of women, and explorations of wildness, bloodlust, and human nature. Family bonds, friendship, love, and patriotism are all depicted in full. The plot is full of twists and turns, and the story is rich with intrigue and legend. Against the backdrop of Northeast China’s local color, the novel brings to life a whole cast of men and women who are bandits from the region.