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Art Publishing House Pub. 2010 - 01-01. Pages 178 Chinese. Times Literary Press Pub. Date :2010-01-01. This book is the Torrent Trilogy is one of the literary master Ba Jin s masterpiece. but also an excellent history of modern Chinese literature of
186 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2011
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October 13, 2015
I just started this book and already I love it. Too bad the copy my friend got for me from China is the condensed/shortened version for high school students.
I wish I knew more about the Chinese history around that time...
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So happy this story doesn't end here, I am eager to find out what happens to these characters in the next two books!!!
I will definitely have to buy the original un-shortened version from Amazon.CN ... cutting over 200 pages out of such a modern Chinese classic is just not right.
This was the very first novel (trilogy: 家[family/home], 春[spring], 秋[autumn]) written in Chinese that I had read since coming to Canada over 20 years ago. Surprisingly, I was able to read and utterly appreciate it all - it was an easy read not because it was edited/rewritten for YA; the words used were simple enough yet the story spun out of these simple words struck deep on the mind and soul. My heart ached for the characters for their daily struggle, the restrictions imposed on them by the Chinese traditions at the time, society, family obligations, superstitions etc.
巴金 (Ba Jin), the master in modern Chinese literature, truly deserved the title.
I wish I knew more about the Chinese history around that time...
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So happy this story doesn't end here, I am eager to find out what happens to these characters in the next two books!!!
I will definitely have to buy the original un-shortened version from Amazon.CN ... cutting over 200 pages out of such a modern Chinese classic is just not right.
This was the very first novel (trilogy: 家[family/home], 春[spring], 秋[autumn]) written in Chinese that I had read since coming to Canada over 20 years ago. Surprisingly, I was able to read and utterly appreciate it all - it was an easy read not because it was edited/rewritten for YA; the words used were simple enough yet the story spun out of these simple words struck deep on the mind and soul. My heart ached for the characters for their daily struggle, the restrictions imposed on them by the Chinese traditions at the time, society, family obligations, superstitions etc.
巴金 (Ba Jin), the master in modern Chinese literature, truly deserved the title.
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