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中国1957

Zhongguo 1957

“China 1957” (title translated by AI)

You Fengwei (尤凤伟, born 1943)

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The novel opens as the rectification drive and the Anti-Rightist Campaign reach a Beijing university in 1957. Zhou Wenxiang, Feng Li, Li Wumeng and Wu Qidu are found guilty, jailed and shifted from one labour farm to another, where good and evil, survival, desire and sex take strange forms under extreme pressure.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
China, 1957
First published
2001 by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Author's age
58 when first published