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As Time Goes By, I Am Afraid of Being Urged by Teenagers

Xu Peng

124K0

This is a contemporary campus novel about university, family, society, loyalty and reflection. In the novel, there is Zhang Yang who has lofty ideals and flamboyant personality, there is a girl who is as simple as pure water, there is Li Xiaohui who never reads but holds a copy of Shakespeare all day long, there is Xu Yan who has low self-esteem due to his family environment, and there is Xu Dachuan whose family is extremely rich but cannot have freedom. These people are all singing about youth without regrets. Each person in the novel is a piece of text, and the author writes this piece of text to tell us a story about youth. And through the various detailed descriptions of the protagonist, it reflects the real living conditions of contemporary Chinese college students.

Taipingmen

Taipingmen

General Fiction

Xu Peng

217K0

"Taipingmen" is a novel based on the early revolution in Sichuan and Chongqing and the growth of young students studying in France for work-study studies. It tells the story of the Sichuan-Chongqing people's search for the truth of national salvation and the path to revolution in the ten years from 1910, when the Sichuan-Hankou Railway was being built, to 1920, when the first batch of graduates from the Chongqing Preparatory School for Studying in France went to France to work-study. There are seventeen chapters in total in the book. The storyline is laid out using a combination of fiction and reality, with important historical facts as the framework, and the fictional main characters such as Xu Chunfeng, Xin Youguo, Hua Shaochang, and Hua Xiansheng as the main line. It vividly tells the story of how the seeds of revolution are quietly sprouting throughout Sichuan and even the country, and the revolutionary movements brewing and happening everywhere are impacting the decadent and stubborn feudal dynasty again and again. The author's writing style is simple and delicate, with strong emotions. He is good at using vivid language with local characteristics to make the characters in the novel come alive on the page. On the occasion of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the publication of this book is of great significance to commemorate the eighty-three revolutionary young men in history who traveled across the ocean in search of the truth to save the country, and to commemorate the century-old memory of seeking peace outside the Taiping Gate.

Kuixing Tower

Kuixing Tower

General Fiction

Xu Peng

261K0

The sky is filled with beacon fire, the mountains and rivers are burning, and the spring and autumn dance is performed on the nine-foot stage. The novel "Kui Xing Tower" is the second part of Xu Peng's modern trilogy series and a companion volume to the novel "Taipingmen". The book takes the warlords' melee and the turbulent revolutionary years from the early 1920s to the late 1930s as the grand historical background of the story. It integrates the construction process of the theater "Kixing Tower" and the cultural heritage of Sichuan and Chongqing represented by Sichuan Opera throughout the story. The narrative of the ups and downs of political ideal choices, changes in social life, encounters with cultural traditions, and changes in life encounters vividly depicts the personal destiny of small figures from various forces and their close relationship with the changes in the larger historical era, thus providing a further insight into the magnificent picture of the revolutionary development in the Sichuan and Chongqing regions of China at that time.

Pingdu Mountain

Pingdu Mountain

General Fiction

Xu Peng

281K0

From the thousand-year-old fairy mountain to the underworld of Fengdu, what secrets are hidden in the Bayu divine bird that emperors of all ages have been looking for? It has been rumored since ancient times that when the world is at peace, a phoenix will appear. It carries the supreme treasure and the secret of immortality, attracting princes and generals of all ages to pursue it. This book is a historical suspense novel that tells the story of the protagonist Yu Pengfei, who gets clues from his suddenly deceased uncle and embarks on a thrilling journey to find the secret of the Phoenix and track down the murderer. While pursuing Phoenix from place to place, Yu Pengfei uncovered the truth about the intertwining of human nature and desire for thousands of years. The ship coffins, road guides, phoenix totems, etc. All point to that thousand-year-old ghost town with profound history - Fengdu...