To Be Alive is a novel by Yu Hua, a contemporary writer in China. First published in the sixth issue of Harvest, 1992. To Be Alive tells the story of Xu Fugui's life and family's constant suffering under the background of great times. Finally, all his relatives left him, leaving only the old man and an old cow. The novel tells the unfortunate experience and bumpy fate of Fu Gui in the era of rapid change with an ordinary and plain story, and shows the meaning of life and the value of existence with calm brushwork.
Ordinary World is a million-word novel by China writer Lu Yao, which shows the contemporary urban and rural social life in China in a panoramic way. First published in February, 1986. The book is set in China in the ten years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, with two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, as the center, and depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time, with complicated contradictions and entanglements. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined.
Introduction to other classic works
Fortress Besieged is a novel by Qian Zhongshu and a satirical novel with unique style in the history of modern literature in China. Known as a new scholar. The first edition was published by Shanghai Chen Guang Publishing Company on 1947. The story mainly describes the group image of intellectuals in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. The story of the besieged city took place from 1920 to 1940s. Fang Hung-chien, the hero, is a young man who came out of a squire family in the south of China. Fang Hung-chien was forced by family pressure to get engaged to a woman who was also Zhou.
Border Town is a novella created by Shen Congwen, first published on 1934. Based on the tea cave in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s, the novel depicts the unique amorous feelings of Xiangxi with the beautiful brushwork of lyric poetry and prose. The pure love story of Cui Cui, a boatman girl, shows the goodness and beauty of human nature. Due to the aesthetic art of Border Town, the novel Border Town has a unique position in the history of modern literature in China.