Golden Ghost Talent

Author: Peng Keru
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book, written over 15 years based on the author's observations and experiences working in a museum, vividly portrays the legendary figure of Jin Gui, a master of antiques. In the old society, Jin Gui was an antique dealer—clever, cunning, greedy, lustful, and a fraudster, but also a chivalrous and patriotic individual. Later, under the care and encouragement of communists, he navigated the intrigues of warlords, unscrupulous merchants, traitors, and Japanese invaders. During the Cultural Revolution, he fought against the Red Guards and ultimately brought the rare treasure, the "Seven Treasures of the Star Codex," back to the embrace of his homeland. The novel also explores the love-hate relationships and joys and sorrows of Jin Gui with eight women from both China and abroad, reflecting a side of Chinese social life from the War of Resistance to the Reform and Opening Up.