"" translates to "Jade Shattered"

Author: Tuowa
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: Tuowa is a very distinctive writer among Beijing writers. He is a person deeply rooted in his hometown and loves it. He pays attention to the changes in the countryside during modernization, especially the psychological changes of farmers when they are about to lose their land. Tuowa's writing style is becoming increasingly unique, characterized by his Western Beijing literature. This book is a beautiful yet sorrowful elegy for agricultural civilization, as well as an alternative urban fable. During social transformation, while some jade may have been broken, outdated, backward, rough, and uncivilized things have also been shattered along with it.