Xiangxi Love of Bandits

Author: Yang Fei
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: "18 mules, startled like dominoes, fell one after another into a deep valley of thousands of meters" – this heart-stirring scene description comes from Yang Fei's newly released work, Xiangxi Love and Bandits. Xiangxi Love and Bandits is another masterpiece by Yang Fei following his best-selling novels Internal Reference Journalist and Moonlight and Beauty Bay. It portrays the "mysterious, romantic, and brave bandits" of the 1940s in Xiangxi with vivid detail, and former Mao Dun Literature Prize judge He Shaojun wrote in the preface, "Creating novels with bandits as the main characters is a promising field, and Yang Fei's Xiangxi Love and Bandits proves this point. Moreover, the pleasure derived from reading Xiangxi Love and Bandits is no less than that from reading a top-tier wuxia novel." Xiangxi Love and Bandits is another masterpiece by Yang Fei following his best-selling novels Internal Reference Journalist and Moonlight and Beauty Bay. It portrays the "mysterious, romantic, and brave bandits" of the 1940s in Xiangxi with vivid detail, and former Mao Dun Literature Prize judge He Shaojun wrote in the preface, "Creating novels with bandits as the main characters is a promising field, and Yang Fei's Xiangxi Love and Bandits proves this point. Moreover, the pleasure derived from reading Xiangxi Love and Bandits is no less than that from reading a top-tier wuxia novel." Yang Fei is a seasoned photojournalist, and his novels Internal Reference Journalist and Moonlight and Beauty Bay are the first two installments in his "Journalist Trilogy." It is reported that due to the engaging storyline of the novel, there are currently those interested in turning Xiangxi Love and Bandits into a television drama.