In English
Mao Dun 2000 · Winner
Red Poppies
尘埃落定 · Chen'ai luoding
Alai · 39 when first published
Novel · 433 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:Among the Tibetan chieftains of western Sichuan, the powerful Maiqi chieftain fathers a son with his Han Chinese wife while drunk. Everyone takes the boy for a fool, yet he has an uncanny sense of what is coming.