The Heavy Hat

He was born on an earthen kang in the North China Plain and grew up amid endless waves of wheat across the loess fields. From the famine that struck like a bolt from the blue to the tumultuous turning point of a new era; from the hardship and displacement of heading northeast to the twists and turns of searching for a way forward in a new age... This work records not only the struggles and ups and downs of an ordinary farmer in the last century, but also the imprint of an era, and the silent joys and sorrows and unyielding backbone of an entire generation.