雪山大地

After 1949 a Han cadre, remembered by his son simply as Father, is sent to the Qinduo grassland near the source of the Yellow River in Qinghai to study how the herders live. The commune head Jiaoba Deji, a former tribal chief, gives him a Tibetan name and asks the herdsman Sangjie to guide him, and the two families, Han and Tibetan, become bound together. Father lives in Sangjie's tent, founds the county's first school, opens a shop and later a trading company, and fights to save the degrading pastures, while Mother, a doctor, builds its first hospital and goes to treat people with leprosy. Told by their son, the novel follows three generations through decades of change on the high plateau.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Nature, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2022 by Writers Publishing House

ISBN

9787521221350 (original)