Bell and Drum Towers—《Liu Xinwu's Best Works》Volume 1

Author: Liu Xinwu
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This volume includes The Bell Tower and Drum Tower, As You Wish, and the landmark work of Chinese literature in the New Period, The Head Teacher. The Bell Tower and Drum Tower is the author's long, and for which he won the Second Mao Dun Literature Prize. The novel tells the story of the area around the Bell Tower and Drum Tower in Beijing in the early 1980s, showcasing an incredibly rich and diverse scene, narrating the joys and sorrows of the streets, the fate of several generations, and revisiting the moving world depicted by Liu Xinwu through the lens of time, as if flipping through a vibrant and lively scroll of urban memory—a modern River Scene at Qingming Festival brimming with a strong Beijing flavor. In the enchanting old Beijing, where customs and concepts were undergoing tremendous changes, the Bell Tower stood before the red walls and gray tiles, constantly welcoming a moment, a day, a month, a year, and the next generation, forever serving as a witness to social history and personal fate. The vitality of The Bell Tower and Drum Tower will become more pronounced with the passage of time, evoking memories of that era filled with aspirations.