Tiger Roars for Eight Years (1)

Author: Wen Jingbang
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The Chinese resistance against Japan went through three stages: the Black Tiger period, the White Tiger period, and the Red Tiger period. The former was the retreating tiger, the middle was the resilient tiger, and the latter was the victorious tiger. —Princess Margherita —War and Peace in China, 1936-1945 is a long novel depicting the frontlines of the War of Resistance against Japan. It is a literary work that can be read as a historical record. Renowned scholar Dai Enming and German sinologist Hans Albrecht highly recommend it. Contemporary Chinese writer Wen Jingbang is hailed as a true war literature masterpiece, a monumental epic worthy of the term. War or peace? For the Chinese in 1936, it was a choice between survival or annihilation. Chiang Kai-shek said, "First pacify the internal before resisting the external." The Communist Party of China said, "Stop the civil war and unite against foreign aggression." The surrenderist faction said, "Japan cannot be fought; fighting it will lead to the country's destruction." Amidst these sharp disagreements, Japan's ambitions grew ever larger, its arrogance increased, and its iron hooves swiftly invaded from North China to Inner Mongolia, then Shanghai. The suffering China seemed like modern-day Middle East, being carved up at will; while the former United States and Europe, for their own interests, hypocritically indulged and tolerated Japan. The Chinese nation had reached a critical moment! How to put aside past grievances and unite against foreign aggression became an urgent issue for all interest groups. This book is the opening volume of the long historical novel Roaring Tiger for Eight Years, detailing the complex situation in China and the Far East around 1936. Its the bloody and sorrowful history of the Chinese nation in crisis, leaving readers indignant, stunned, and moved with emotion.