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Author: Qiu Huadong
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Qiu Huadong's works focus on modern urban young people. He calmly observes the alienation of materialism on people and dissects human desires. His novels directly reach the heart. Qiu Huadong's series of short stories reflects typical middle-class novels. Professor Zhang Yiwu of Peking University praised his works: "These novels exceptionally sensitively portray the daily life experiences of the rapidly rising new middle class in China. With a delicate brushstroke, they depict various aspects of urban daily life in China, highlighting the unique cultural state of the Chinese middle class, and also well express its various contradictions and confusions. It is precisely for this reason that Qiu Huadong's novels resonate and are appreciated by the rising urban middle class. This book describes the story of a group of so-called middle-class people living in a 'high-end' community—the joys and sorrows of a white-collar woman whose life attitude changes after being disfigured in a car accident; the grief and helplessness of a single mother facing her daughter's unmarried pregnancy."