The flowers shed tears

Author: Shen Jiahe
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Publishing Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book depicts, with a pen dipped in blood and tears, the desperate lives of the people of old Beijing who became slaves under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders. It portrays the ugly faces and shameless lives of the Japanese, traitorous Han collaborators, bureaucratic elites, and local bullies. It also highlights the plight of women, especially those who became prostitutes in brothels and the Eight Great Huts in southern Beijing, and were reduced to "comfort women" under the brutal oppression of the Japanese. The plots in the book are all based on the author's interviews over decades of his journalistic career. Its historical perspective, folk customs, and literary quality make this book possess an irreplaceable and unique value.