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This volume contains his two novelettes Garden of Repose, completed in 1944, and Bitter Cold Nights in 1946. Garden of Repose depicts the misfortunes which befell the Yang family. The work is a warning to parents that unless they have given their children a good moral education, the wealth they leave behind will not prove to be a blessing. On the contrary, it may well turn out to be the cause of disaster leading them to their downfall. Permanent values can be found only in noble ideals and in a healthy spiritual world. Bitter Cold Nights is the story of the life and death of an ordinary intellectual, Wang Wenxuan, and his beautiful wife. At first a virtuous woman, Wang's wife eventually left him, as she could no longer bear the pain of poverty or resist the temptation of wealth and power. The book exposes the rule of darkness in the old days. In addition, it expresses the author's angry protest against the exploitation of the weak by the strong in a society where evil powers prevailed. The volume also contains some illustrations.
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Selected Works of Ba Jin, Vol 2: Garden of Repose, Bitter Cold Nights
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Selected Works of Ba Jin, Vol 2: Garden of Repose, Bitter Cold Nights
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Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1988
ISBN 10 : 7119005758
ISBN 13 : 9787119005751
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Huang Yinghao (illustrateur). First Edition. Foreign Languages Press, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages. Garden of Repose (??, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, ??, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family home to a businessman, and the businessman's son, a spoiled and rude boy. The drug addict squats in an abandoned temple and is beaten to death in the streets; the boy falls down a garden well and drowns. Cold Nights portrays a Chinese Everyman's slow death by tuberculosis; his consumption apparently caused less by the bacteria in his lungs than by the debilitative generational tensions of Republican China. The protagonist is torn between his traditional mother and his modern wife. With air raid alarms sounding through the cold winter nights, it is the arguments between mother and daughter-in-law in their small apartment that are the most corrosive and frustrating as relationships deteriorate in the social depression and ennui that pervade 1940s China. Ba Jin was the grand old man of Chinese literature from the heady years of the real cultural revolution in the 1920s and 1930s. Born into a large, wealthy Sichuanese clan, he was raised in a compound with as many as 100 relatives: the despotic grandfather, his two wives, all the adult sons and their wives and children, and eventually the grandchildren, plus dozens of servants. Family feuds broke out when Ba's grandfather died and authority was eventually transferred to an elder uncle. Ba Jin read widely and was deeply influenced by Piotr Kropotkin's famous pamphlet, "An Appeal to the Young." He called Emma Goldman his "spiritual mother" and engaged in a lifelong correspondence with her. After moving to Paris in his early 20s, he joined a group of young Chinese anarchists adopted the name Ba Jin: Ba from the first syllable in the surname of Mikhail Bakunin, and Jin for the last syllable of Kropotkin. N° de réf. du vendeur RWARE0000000758
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ISBN 13 : 9787119005751
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