Green sleeves · Crane stops stepping

Author: Hongying
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book selects several long novels by the renowned writer and poet Hongying, who is celebrated worldwide in literature. Green Sleeves tells the story of Changchun in 1945, when Japan faced defeat. A Sino-Japanese mixed-race actress from the Manchurian Film Studio and a Sino-Russian mixed-race male laborer begin a love affair amidst the chaos. However, in this era of stark black and white, where right and wrong are constantly redefined, they are forcefully driven away by Chinese, Russians, and Japanese. The Crane Stops is an outstanding communist novel. Inspired by Ming Wang Tong Gui's Er Tan, where two sons playfully interact in a same-sex manner, one mistakenly beats a handsome man to death. The man takes the blame for the death sentence, and initially, his friends often visit and bring food. Later, they suddenly stop, and he harbors resentment, eventually accusing his friend. The friend is executed, and he too meets a tragic end by touching a tree. Hongying adapts the story to Shanghai during the period of the (), where military intelligence, spies from the Kuomintang and Communist Party, and the underworld clash, leading to the love, hatred, life, and death of two young men.