Taking a bath (The latest edition of Yang Jiang's most classic works)

Author: Yang Jiang
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a work by Yang Jiang. Her talent was overshadowed by the brilliance of her husband, and the satire in her writing went unnoticed. Qian Zhongshu was like a diamond inlaid with gold, precious beyond words; Yang Jiang, on the other hand, was a soft, warm, and smooth Tianhu jade, humble to the point of being easily overlooked. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place primarily depicts the intellectual re-education of intellectuals after the liberation, specifically the "Three Anti" campaign. Mr. Yang Jiang vividly portrays the inner world and outward appearance of this group of intellectuals. This book is not a novel centered around a single protagonist but uses a political movement as the backdrop to write about the intellectual re-education of intellectuals after the liberation. The entire book is divided into three parts: the first part describes how the new China recruited talent without discrimination; the second part, how these people needed to "take a bath"; and the third part, how each of them showed different behaviors during the movement.