Bell and Drum Towers: Liu Xinwu's Best Collection (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 she 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 social scene, narrating the joys and sorrows of the streets, the fate of 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. It is a modern Qingming Shanghuatu brimming with a strong Beijing flavor. In the enchanting old Beijing, where customs and values 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, reminding us once again of that era filled with aspirations.