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Talk About Him: Tongcheng's Past
General Fiction言他：桐城往事
Wang Gu Zuo
How did the decent and docile Miss Chen become the powerful Liu family? How did the farce of snatching a bride turn into a lifetime of no regrets? What kind of legend is told by the peddler, the rattle and a large spotted snake? Liu Dajiao's son, who has been away for twenty years, returns again. How does he look at Tang Qiao? Love and hatred, elegance and vulgarity, hope and despair, are intertwined and extended in Tangqiao Township, Tongcheng, Anhui. As a partial narrative of rural China spanning fifty years, the past events recounted from the author's memory are honest and warm, ancient and vulgar. They represent rural China from the 1930s to the 1980s.
How did the decent and docile Miss Chen become the powerful Liu family? How did the farce of snatching a bride turn into a lifetime of no regrets? What kind of legend is told by the peddler, the rattle and a large spotted snake? Liu Dajiao's son, who has been away for twenty years, returns again. How does he look at Tang Qiao? Love and hatred, elegance and vulgarity, hope and despair, are intertwined and extended in Tangqiao Township, Tongcheng, Anhui. As a partial narrative of rural China spanning fifty years, the past events recounted from the author's memory are honest and warm, ancient and vulgar. They represent rural China from the 1930s to the 1980s.