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Spring Returns to Every Tree [1970] 万木春[1970]
(The female-led mystery next door, He, is now available. Click into my author page to read it.) In 1950, Tang Guoxing was eight years old. The others called her Little Tang, and she'd correct them solemnly: "I'm eight. I'm too old for a childhood nickname. From now on, call me Tang Guoxing." Her grandfather wanted her to learn carpentry and become a carpenter. Tang Guoxing: "I don't want to be a carpenter. I want to be the grain depot director!" In 1970, twenty-eight-year-old Tang Guoxing was
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In This Land [1950] 这土地里[1950]
(Revision in progress) (Polishing some details and rewriting the final section) In 1950, shortly after the founding of the People's Republic, the city's machinery factory reopened. The daughter of Widow Hu from Yulan Town packed her bags and left her mother in the care of the town's granary. Then she went to the city alone. The widow, already over fifty, couldn't understand the new world her daughter spoke of. Still, she followed her daughter's arrangements and went to the granary to cook for
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Looking Toward Spring 望春天
(Don't get invested. I'm rewriting it, and I've hit a wall. The revisions are going very slowly.) Xu Tang can remember the names of her ancestors going back seven generations because she has to recite them every year when burning offerings. She never understood what those names meant. Until one day, she went back to 1950. # My ancestors are all shining stars. Recommended completed works by the author: In This Land, about rural women in the early years of the People's Republic of China Spring
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Power Plant 1930 电厂1930
In 1931, Xue Linguang joined a power plant and became a power plant worker. That year, she joked with her friends, "See that light? A little of my sweat is in there." In 1949, in her eighteenth year at the power plant, she saw the light for the first time. This is a story about ordinary people enduring the war and, in the end, protecting the power plant to welcome a new era. Theme: Even in darkness, keep your heart turned toward the light
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Skyscrapers 高楼大厦
In her third year of middle school, Yue, a left-behind child, didn't want to study anymore. Her parents, who worked on construction sites, were furious. In the end, they said, "Fine, go out and work! Once you've tried working, you'll realize how much better it is to study!" Yue took her older cousin's ID card and went to a construction site to earn money mixing cement. She didn't have to take beatings or get bullied by her classmates, and she made several friends. They worked together during th
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