Red Women's Army

Author: Xiao Jian
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book takes a unique perspective to boldly deconstruct and rewrite the film Red Detachment of Women, preserving the original story structure while extending the history. It portrays a group of new characters in a vague, uncertain, and seemingly plausible form—Feng Qionghua, a female Red Army member resembling the original character, her granddaughter Feng, Zhong Bo, the lover of Qionghua, and a filmmaker who claims to be the grandson of Nanzhao Tian. This is a new Red Detachment of Women. The author takes a unique perspective to boldly deconstruct and rewrite the film Red Detachment of Women, preserving the original story structure while extending the history. It portrays a group of new characters in a vague, uncertain, and seemingly plausible form—Feng Qionghua, a female Red Army member resembling the original character, her granddaughter Feng, Zhong Bo, the lover of Qionghua, and a filmmaker who claims to be the grandson of Nanzhao Tian. The book reflects on the forgotten and examined history, the confusion and escape from the present, and reevaluates everything with a modern spirit. The first half of each chapter has the style of Haruki Murakami, while the second half is in the style of red classics. The stark contrast in text style, character emotions, spiritual concepts, cultural landscapes, and temporal-spatial gaps leaves people with endless reflection, while also depicting the lives of the surviving members of the Red Detachment of Women today. It is a completely new Red Detachment of Women.