On the 80th anniversary of China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chongqing! Chongqing! tells a national epic of a broken family against the backdrop of a city forged in blood and fire.
Jiang Suying, an intellectual from Nanjing, loses her home in a massive Japanese air raid, and her husband dies of grief and outrage. With the nation in peril, her three sons each make a fateful choice: her eldest, Chen Tianyou, joins the Kuomintang Navy and battles on the Yangtze; her second, Chen Tianzuo, joins the Communist underground and fights in secret; her youngest, Chen Tianci, becomes trapped in the Wang Jingwei regime, tormented by the struggle between humiliation and conscience.
Through Jiang Suying's arduous search for her sons, the novel vividly portrays the astonishing resilience of Chongqing's citizens in the air-raid shelters: the spirit of enduring hardship. It also brings to life the thrilling world of espionage. The three brothers' diverging paths and ultimate fates weave together the greater good of family and country with the bonds of blood, forming a tragic microcosm of the four hundred million Chinese people standing together against foreign aggression.
Through the rise and fall of one family's fortunes and the blood-soaked resolve of a heroic city, this work of more than 100,000 words pays heartfelt tribute to the Chinese people's great spirit of struggle and unyielding soul in their fight for independence and freedom. This book is dedicated to remembering the martyrs, honoring history, and inspiring the future: remember the years of war and safeguard the land we have today.
