Dongguan Memories: The Girls Who Loved Me Back Then
东莞往事：那些年爱过我的女孩
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- 673k Words
- Genre
- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Everyday
- Updated
- 3d ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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Other names
- 东莞往事：在螺丝和蕾丝间逆袭Alternate title on Fanqie
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This work uses Dongguan in 2006 as the backdrop, depicting a grassroots counterattack full of sweat and body heat. Using an almost documentary approach, the author strips away shortcuts in online writing such as "system" and "windfall", and candidly shows an ordinary graduate's "mud-covered journey" from a rookie who can't drive a screw to a workplace elite. The setting of "multiple heroines" in the book is not a flashy affair, but a metaphor for the warmth and lessons at different stages of growth. The author tells everything about his own experience, making the struggle and the price of choice full of rough reality. This is not a "cool article", but a sweaty confession written to all ordinary people - it tells you that the real counterattack begins with acknowledging the ordinary and ends with every specific persistence.
There is no golden finger of cool writing, only the reality of the struggles of migrant workers. The author writes about the ups and downs of working in Dongguan so poignantly that every ordinary person's struggle for life is reflected in the book. This is the real record of ordinary people's counterattack! There is no good luck coming from the sky, it all depends on persistence step by step. After reading it, I feel that the struggle of ordinary people is the most powerful, and it strongly recharges myself who is working hard.
There is no system, only the gravity of life; it is not a cool novel, but the hard work of ordinary people in reality. A story of grassroots struggle based on real experiences, looking at how ordinary people resist the suffering of life.
The writing is quite good, and the language style is just like the language habits in reality. The plot is written in detail, and the author has a wide range of knowledge... Personally, I think the title of the book "Past in Dongguan: The Girl Who Loved Me in Those Years" is more accurate.
Reading this book, I still feel very emotional in my heart. We are all people under the tide of the times. Especially, I feel that Lin Yu's experience of finding a job is really sad. He finally took off "Kong Yiji's long gown", but was scolded and yin and yang, and felt helpless as a worker. In real life, there are not so many golden fingers to relieve one's anger. We can only slowly grow up and turn over, but this process is so long! Looking forward to the author's great follow-up development!!!
This novel is very close to real life and tells the experiences of ordinary people in plain language. What it writes about is ordinary people, what it writes about is all living beings, what it writes about is thousands of ourselves.
It's pretty, not bad.
A grassroots counterattack story, I really like it! The author is full of passion, and the writing deeply resonates with me! I will always be with you, liking you has become my habit!! Come on!!!
It's not bad. The author also has life experience. The writing is very real 👍 It's just an ordinary person's working experience in that era. The writing style is also good 👍 👍 👍
This book writes about the ups and downs of working people. It looks better.