Small Town Called Hibiscus - Softcover

Gu Hua

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9787507100211: Small Town Called Hibiscus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 7507100219 ISBN 13: 9787507100211

Publisher: Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, 1983

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A Small Town Called Hibiscus is one of the best Chinese novels to have appeared in 1981. Its author Gu Hua was brought up in the Wuling Mountains of south Hunan. He presents the ups and downs of some families in a small mountain town there during the hard years in the early sixties, the "cultural revolution," and after the downfall of the "gang of four." He shows the horrifying impact on decent, hard-working people of the gang's ultra-Left line, and retains a sense of humor in describing the most harrowing incidents. In the end wrongs are righted, and readers are left with a deepened understanding of this abnormal period in Chinese history and the sterling qualities of the Chinese people.

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