Great Valley

Author: Mao Dun
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: "Ming Dian Bookstore" focuses on the timeless works of modern universities, selecting art pieces with the greatest reading value and the most profound humanistic significance. Each volume features the personal creative works of individual writers and plans to release them in separate series. Since the mid-1980s, the publisher has compiled and published over 200 modern writer collections, including the "Complete Works Series of Modern Classic Writers," "Century Literary Archives," and "Modern Texts" modern works libraries. Among these efforts, the contributions of scholars such as Qian Liqun, Wang Dehou, Wu Fuhui, Ling Yu, Chen Pingyuan, Chen Zishan, Shen Shaoyong, Lan Diezhi, Wu Fang, and Fu Guangming have been particularly valuable. They have strived to promote excellence, integrate and improve, providing contemporary readers with a more universal classic reading series.
Mao Dun is a renowned modern Chinese writer, and his long holds a pivotal position in the history of modern Chinese fiction. Generally, the most representative works in Mao Dun's novels are the early Erosion and The Rainbow, as well as the later Night in Shanghai. These novels are distinguished by their profound observations, broad perspectives, and grand narrative structures. They employ accurate, vivid, and rich artistic techniques to depict the complex and tumultuous historical panorama of China from the 1920s to the 1940s. This book selects 15 of Mao Dun's novels, including Autumn Harvest and Great Zexiang, to delight the readers.