The Yellow Storm

Download or read book The Yellow Storm written by She Lao and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace. This book was released on 1951 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Xiaoyangjuan Hutong in Beijing during the Anti-Japanese War as the specific background, the novel focuses on Qi Family and is supplemented with Qian Family, Guan Family and other residents in the Hutong to depict the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life through the complicated conflicts and reflect the perplexed and contented social mentality of Beijing citizens in the eight-year Anti-Japanese War through their humiliating and miserable experience. The novel represents their slow, painful and difficult awakening progress when the country was ruined and the people were starving. Through the growth, emotion and life history of these small potatoes, it epically shows the 'grand themes': the cruelty of war, the destruction of war on human civilization and life, the ups and downs of national destiny and the national spirit.