“Eighty-one days of fire and fury in Jiangyin, one hundred thousand people united in righteous death.” This is not merely a story of military resistance, but a lament for cultural dignity. When the old dynasty’s order had collapsed, it was ordinary people who took it upon themselves to shoulder the moral burden of Chinese civilization. Their choices defined the dignity of what it means to be human. Told through the eyes of an ordinary resident of Jiangyin at the end of the Ming dynasty, this book recounts the eighty-one days of Jiangyin’s resistance.
