Rain hits jasmine flowers

Author: Zhang Baimen
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book's story encompasses various elements such as love, generational gaps, ethics, legal principles, suspense, and cultural background conflicts. The novel's main theme is to explore a socially significant and thought-provoking issue. It praises love, promotes filial piety, celebrates civilization, criticizes conservatism, and condemns evil. Dongmen Chouwa, a beautiful, kind, lively, and romantic Sino-Russian mixed-race girl, is the child of Shanghai intellectuals. Due to local town mayor's forced marriage, she flees from Northeast to her grandparents' home in Shanghai. Accidentally, she falls in love with Liu Mingyang, an honest, studious, and filial middle-aged man, but he cannot confess to her due to various pressures. Her stubborn and conservative grandfather's overbearing control leaves her confused. In her confusion, she unknowingly falls into the hands of that mayor and nearly tumbles into the depths of crime.