Lin Yutang's famous work: "Moment in Peking" - Novel - Free - Reading
by youxiabcyx on 2009-12-02 05:32:12
"京华烟云" tells the rise and fall for more than 30 years from 1901 Yihequan Movement to Anti-Japanese War of three big families in Beiping - Zeng, Yao and Niu, and their entangled hatred and emotional feud. Historical events are inserted in the story, including Yuan Shikai's usurping of the country, Zhang Xun's restoration, the Zhili–Fengtian Wars, military separatism, "May Fourth" Movement, the "March 18" Massacre, pen battle between the "Yu Si Pai" and the "Modern Review"派, youth "left-leaning", outbreak of World War II, etc., which fully shows the changing historical style of modern Chinese society.
