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Revision as of 21:56, 19 September 2005
Contents
Details
- Chinese Title: 京?烟云 (Jing Hua Yan Yun)
- Broadcast Dates: Oct 2005
Cast
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Synopsis
Based on the famous novel "Moment in Peking" By LIN YUTANG.
THE APPEARANCE of a novel of China, written in English but in the authentic manner of the Chinese novelists, is a literary event of the first order, especially when it comes from the author of those famous works, My Country and My People and The Importance of Living.
The scene is a moving panorama of contemporary China, covering nearly forty years, from the terror of the Boxer Rebillion in 1900 to the bitter excitement of the present Japanese invasion, a period of great social change and adjustment in the lives of a teeming humanity.
The story is that of two daughters of a Peking upper middle-class family, the gay, whimsical, soft-voiced Mulan, and the bright-eyed, practical, more womanly Mochow. Around these two chief characters is depicted the intimate family life of an old official family. Three sons and three strikingly contrasted daughter-in-law offer a cross-section of the bewildering modern generation of China. Revealing with tenderness and humor their conflicts and jealousies, their loves and sorrows, the story develops as its theme the dissolution of family disipline and the conflict of the individual and the family.
The author makes no plea for the old ways or for the new. Telling of Chinese people as he has known them, he presents modern China in flesh and blood, carrying a step further the interpretation given in sly and wry comments in his previous books. This is above all a tale of people.
As the author himself says in his preface, "It is a story of how men and woman in the contemporary era grow up and learn to live with one another, how they love and hate and quarrel and forgive and suffer and enjoy, how certain habits of living and ways of thinking are found, and how, above all, they adjust themselves to the circumstances in this earthly life where men strive but the gods rule."