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Recently, Shibantang, a full-length novel published by Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House officially went into market. It was collaboratively created by writer Jiang Jianping and Jiang Mengzhu. Witnessing the prosperity and decline of Jiang’s Family, Shibantang, in the north of Hunan, it reveals the new content and changes of this iconic symbol Shibantang.
The author of the novel is “Mengzhu” which is the pseudonym shared by Jiang Jianping and Jiang Mengzhu. After graduated from School of Economics of Peking University, Jiang Jianping worked as associate editor for Economic Science magazine, editorial board member of World of Management magazine and visiting professor of The Open University of China. Jiang cooperated with Jiang Mengzhu, a journalist of Labor Noon Paper, to turn the stories of his hometown Xiangyin of Hunan into novel, presenting the strong regional characteristics of northern Hunan to readers.
Jiang’s Family, the main line of the novel, lived and thrived in Shibantang, in northern Hunan. They gradually became a wealthy and powerful family in Hunan. As a symbol, Shibantang witnesses the prosperity and decline of the family as well as social changes and turbulence of times. Jiang Yunyue and Li Yinglian stand for different powers in the family even though they both belong to it. The patriarch has the supreme power over the family. The dignity and the rules he guards are actually old and doltish shackle under the disguise of domestic discipline and filial piety. The old disciplines of feudal family are incompatible with the new time. Like Jiang’s Family, Shibantang is also totally decadent like a pool of dead water. However, the family’s new generation like Yinglian and Yaozong revitalizes Shibantang through their struggle against family’s old rules. They are the omen of Shibantang’s hope and prospect. Affected by the new thoughts, Shibantang people get out of the state of ignorance, begin to change their old life and invigorate Shibantang.
It is a fascinating novel with plain and natural language as well as strong flavor of life.
The author of the novel is “Mengzhu” which is the pseudonym shared by Jiang Jianping and Jiang Mengzhu. After graduated from School of Economics of Peking University, Jiang Jianping worked as associate editor for Economic Science magazine, editorial board member of World of Management magazine and visiting professor of The Open University of China. Jiang cooperated with Jiang Mengzhu, a journalist of Labor Noon Paper, to turn the stories of his hometown Xiangyin of Hunan into novel, presenting the strong regional characteristics of northern Hunan to readers.
Jiang’s Family, the main line of the novel, lived and thrived in Shibantang, in northern Hunan. They gradually became a wealthy and powerful family in Hunan. As a symbol, Shibantang witnesses the prosperity and decline of the family as well as social changes and turbulence of times. Jiang Yunyue and Li Yinglian stand for different powers in the family even though they both belong to it. The patriarch has the supreme power over the family. The dignity and the rules he guards are actually old and doltish shackle under the disguise of domestic discipline and filial piety. The old disciplines of feudal family are incompatible with the new time. Like Jiang’s Family, Shibantang is also totally decadent like a pool of dead water. However, the family’s new generation like Yinglian and Yaozong revitalizes Shibantang through their struggle against family’s old rules. They are the omen of Shibantang’s hope and prospect. Affected by the new thoughts, Shibantang people get out of the state of ignorance, begin to change their old life and invigorate Shibantang.
It is a fascinating novel with plain and natural language as well as strong flavor of life.