Our love

Author: Jing Ge
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Our Love takes place in a southern town during the period after the Cultural Revolution and before the Reform and Opening Up. Three young teachers who have just graduated from school are assigned to the town's middle school, where they each portray their own love stories in their own ways. Their love, like that specific era, appears calm and simple yet is filled with uncertainties, accumulating various possibilities, reflecting the fate of intellectuals in the prelude to a stormy time. Such a story, though rooted in romance, is fragmented and incomplete in Jing Ge's writing, carrying a satirical touch of lyrical expression. It makes readers almost forget the "love" theme as they focus more on the life values and destinies of the three young teachers. Our Love takes place in a southern town during the period after the Cultural Revolution and before the Reform and Opening Up. Three young teachers who have just graduated from school are assigned to the town's middle school, where they each portray their own love stories in their own ways. Their love, like that specific era, appears calm and simple yet is filled with uncertainties, accumulating various possibilities, reflecting the fate of intellectuals in the prelude to a stormy time. Such a story, though rooted in romance, is fragmented and incomplete in Jing Ge's writing, carrying a satirical touch of lyrical expression. It makes readers almost forget the "love" theme as they focus more on the life values and destinies of the three young teachers.