Green sleeves. Crane stops.

Author: Hongying
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book selects several long novels by the renowned writer and poet Hongying, who is celebrated worldwide in literature. Green Sleeves tells the story of Changchun in 1945, when Japan faced defeat. A Sino-Japanese mixed-race actress from the Manchurian Film Studio and a Sino-Russian mixed-race male laborer begin a love affair amidst the chaos. However, in this era of clear distinctions yet constant of right and wrong, they are forcefully driven away by Chinese, Russians, and Japanese. The Crane Stops is an outstanding communist novel. Inspired by Ming Wang Tong Gui's Er Tan, where two sons playfully interact with each other, one mistakenly beats a handsome man to death. The man takes the blame for the death sentence, and initially, his friends often visit and bring food. Later, they suddenly stop, and he harbors resentment, eventually exposing his friend, who is sentenced to death and later dies from the punishment, while he himself also dies by touching a tree. Hongying rewrites the story to set it in Shanghai during the period of the (), where military intelligence, spies, and the struggle between the KMT, CCP, and the underworld intertwine, depicting the love, hatred, life, and death of two men.