Silver City
Li Rui breathes life into China's monumental modern history in this vibrant saga of the Li and Bai clans — their romances, betrayals, intrigues, and power struggles. Set in Silver City, a provincial salt-mining town, the narrative takes us from the pre-Communist 1920s — a courtly era of sedan chairs and teahouses, white gardens and poetic scrolls — to the student farmers and high-born tractor drivers of the Communist takeover, to the violent liberations of the Cultural Revolution and beyond. Silver City is populated by a striking array of characters, among them Bai Ruide, the challenger to the Li salt empire, who wields such Western weapons as corporate raids and bank mergers; Lady Yang, his scheming wife, who imports a concubine to bear him a son; Li Naizhi, the unwilling salt heir, who abandons his family for Communism; and his sister, Li Zihen, whose self-sacrifice, loyalty, and endurance ultimately express both the suffering and the strength of China itself. For all the characters who come to life in this sweeping epic — Buddhist ascetics and spoiled schoolgirls, revolutionary martyrs and corrupt militarists — future and fortune are prey to China's relentless cycle of revolutions, counterrevolutions, massacres, and bloodbaths.
- Author
- Li Rui, Howard Goldblatt
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-8050-4895-7
- EAN
- 9780805048957
- Settings
- China
- Genres
- china, asia, literature, fiction
- Release date
- 1997
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