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Wang Jinbing and his wife Mou Mianhua are model workers: after eight changes of post he can still find anything in the stores with his eyes closed, while her record for tying broken threads at the loom becomes a relic once new looms need no knots. Their children carry on in industry. The younger daughter Wang Feng skips drinks and breaks to set output records; the son Wang Jianshe turns into a machine-mad 'blue-collar king'; the elder daughter Wang Ying, who ran the household as a girl, becomes a manager who must start again when her state firm fails; and the adopted son Wang Yuanchao builds up a rural enterprise group. The story runs from the war against Japan to the reform era.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2006 by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House