Day after day - Sketches of life in Beijing during the 1960s and 70s

Author: Zhang Haihui
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Publishing Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Looking back thirty or forty years ago, how many "heroes" rose to prominence only to fade away from the historical stage in the end. The right and wrong of that fiery era, filled with passion and intensity, have turned into nothingness in the blink of an eye. Who can truly say? Only the green mountains and the setting sun remain, as do the city walls and its people, along with the words left behind by those who reminisce about the past, marked with the traces of history. A perspective from the common people, simple language, and ordinary lives. Recalling the past is both real and illusory, distant yet close to reality, recreating the way of life and living patterns that have just passed away. The history of the common people, especially their ordinary lives, has always been difficult to be recorded in official histories. This book is "the thing of the common people," and thus is also "the true history of the common people."