My dad, mom, and aunt

Author: Xie Bo
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: "My Parents and Aunt" is a literary biography that takes us to the stage of Hu Opera, one of the Jiangnan local operas with a large audience, introducing three Hu Opera performing artists active on the stage in the last century and the generation of Hu Opera artists they represent. The author has traveled to Jiangnan several times to seek traces of the past, gather materials, visit the elders, and find the traces of the three predecessors. She herself is a high-achieving graduate of the Chinese Department of Peking University before the Cultural Revolution, with a solid literary foundation, having written many eloquent essays. Therefore, in this book, her thoughts flow like a river, and her pen blooms like flowers, meticulously depicting the ups and downs of her father, mother, and aunt over decades, as well as the joys and sorrows, friendships and enmities among the three. Between the lines, the emotions are overflowing. The rich Shanghai atmosphere and Jiangnan charm are deeply familiar and enjoyable to read, as if you are back in the stone gate lane, sitting on a low stool listening to your aunt's gentle storytelling, watching the little ones running and crying, the Hu Opera, Yue Opera, and Tanzi tunes coming from the radio, making you lose yourself in the music. This also constitutes a distinctive feature of the linguistic art of the book.