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Chronicle of the Abandoned City
This is an urban novel about fate, love, betrayal and redemption. The protagonist Zhou Shicheng came to Xijing City from rural Henan to work. He experienced the betrayal of his first love, the sudden increase in wealth, the breakdown of his marriage, and the test of friendship, and finally found the true meaning of life in the company of his daughter. The novel is based on the social changes in China in the decades after 1995, and hopes to show the epitome of the times from one aspect and one an
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Two Barrels of Oil for a Small Building
The work is set in the chaotic years of the Republic of China in 1948, with dual spaces of Shanghai and Yancheng in northern Jiangsu. It tells the story of Song Shouyi, a lower-class worker who returned to his hometown to fulfill his filial piety. He gave up the brick and wood building he had worked for half his life in exchange for only two barrels of rapeseed oil and rations, and returned with his wife and daughter from the prosperous city to the barren countryside. The novel uses family memor
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