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Books by 楚山散人
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Liuxi Ferry 柳溪渡
The story takes place in the Jiangnan waterside town of Qizhen, from the 1940s through the 1970s. It follows Shen Wangdi, the last of the town’s boatwomen, her adopted son Shuisheng, and the family of Gu Qingrang, descendants of a scholarly household that moved there from Shanghai. Centered on the canal tributary known as Liuxi, it portrays the lives, loves, farewells, and quiet hopes of boatmen, rice-shop owners, teahouse keepers, private-school teachers, and other ordinary people. As the tides
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Poetry, Wine, Sword, and Song 诗词酒剑歌
This is a slow-burning wuxia novel told in a realistic ink-wash style. It follows an ordinary person, not a hero, not a genius, just a young man who once dreamed of the martial world. Shen Jinghong left home at eighteen, thinking the martial world meant poetry, wine, swords, and songs, and that a hero would roam the world with a sword at his side. He met a girl who sang for a living, a retired veteran, bandits in a mountain stronghold, and soldiers guarding the border. He lost his sword in Yang
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A Journey Through Qiushan 丘山行
Twenty li southwest of the lower capital of Yan, there was a village called Baiyang. A villager named She lost his father to bandits, but the county officials refused to open a case, claiming that “the killer was not a county resident.” Later, he met an old man who said he had once served as a retainer to a Zhao nobleman, and taught She the art of hand-to-hand combat. Three years later, whenever bullies caused trouble or powerful men’s retainers abused the people in any of the several villages a
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