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 Head Teacher, a landmark work of Chinese literature in the New Period. 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 a rich and diverse urban scene, narrating the joys and sorrows of the streets, the destinies of generations, and revisiting the moving world depicted by Liu Xinwu, as if flipping through a vibrant and lively scroll of urban memory. It is a modern Along the River During the Qingming Festival brimming with a strong Beijing flavor. In the enchanting old Beijing, where customs and ideas 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 over time, evoking memories of that era filled with aspirations.