A century of elegance

Author: Yingquan
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: The novel depicts the ups and downs and social realities of a town in southern China with epic grandeur. The death of a man named Ding Hanwu affects generations of ordinary people. Some possess extraordinary skills but end up as living corpses; some burn out their passion and live in regret; some achieve enlightenment and immolate themselves; some indulge in excess and die from extramarital affairs. The sentimental are often doomed, and the flamboyant inflict too much harm upon each other. The distorted era breeds distorted human tragedies. Alas! The work won the Qu Yuan Literature Prize.