Bing Xin novels

Author: Bing Xin
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: Bing Xin wrote a total of seventy-five novels in her lifetime, and this book selects fifty-three of them. From "Two Families," written in September 1919, to the last one, "Interference," written in late August 1988, the time span covers a full seventy years. Bing Xin, known for her "problem novels" in the May Fourth literary circle, was swept away by the tide of the era, forcing her out of her home and school, and allowing her to see the various problems in the semi-feudal and semi-colonial Chinese society around her. There was blood, not tears; there was humiliation and groans; there was oppression and cries. "I only wanted to write about the various problems I saw and heard in the form of novels." (Bing Xin: "From May Fourth to April Fifth") Bing Xin's "problem novels" raised a series of thought-provoking social issues.