Century on the Post (Color Illustration Treasures Edition)

Author: Wang Anyi
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: The Century on the Ridge explores the intrinsic value of life from the perspective of life's essence, using aesthetic awareness to observe and depict human sexual experiences and vitality. It reveals the mysteries of life's essence and reflects on the characters through a modern consciousness, examining how instinctual impulses, under the constraints that sweep away the ignorance of all cultures, destroy the value of life. It also uncovers the suppression of youthful vitality by the disharmonious atmosphere of families and society.
When news of the recruitment quota for returning to the city reaches the female Red Guard Li Xiaojin, she repeatedly expresses her desire to return to the city to her team leader, Yang Xuguo. To this, Yang Xuguo remains ambiguous. During this process, due to frequent interactions, they develop an uncontrollable passion at a certain point in time. When Li Xiaojin learns that the recruitment quota has been given to another female Red Guard, she, after a fit of crying and screaming, reports Yang Xuguo to the County's Five-seven Office. As a result, Yang Xuguo, who had committed the crime of raping a female Red Guard, is arrested. Later, Li Xiaojin transfers her household registration to a village named "Little Ridge."
One day, Yang Xuguo, released prematurely from prison, suddenly breaks into her small, solitary dwelling. She once again falls into an uncontrollable passion, and the two spend seven days and seven nights in an intense, passionate embrace, as if they had lived through an entire century. This novel depicts the peak state of passion and a certain extreme mindset under specific circumstances, making it a classic work of contemporary Chinese middle fiction.