You will feel that it is somewhat similar to Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy", but this book is a microcosm of Chinese rural children living and working in the city, which is very different from the American version. Born in the countryside in the 1980s, four children of peasant families experienced drowning, enlistment, love, breakup, failure, glory, return, and no confusion. I also experienced going to college, moving to the city, feeling low self-esteem, being proud, and understanding myself. They have experienced the hardships in China's rural areas, and also experienced the dividend period of urbanization. Some of them failed in their investments, while others lived a stable life. Together, they wrote the hesitation of rural children entering the city in the 1980s. They also represented the inferiority and growth of some rural children after entering the city, and also reflected China's social changes in the past 40 years.
Purpose: The fastest 40 years of urbanization, through the gap between rural and urban areas, to find the possibility of bridging the gap between urban and rural areas