Bøger af Zhang Ling

The book is a complete archive of the sent-down youths point in Panjin of Liaoning Provice. It describes the establishment, development and disappearance of one the sent-down youths point, and depicts physical labor, life and study of the 1,200 sent-down youths. Also fills the missing and blind spot of historical archives of Chinese the sent-down youths. The book not only depicts with the suffering of them, but also records the quantity of paddy rice contributed to the country by the sent-down youths in the ten years, reflects their achievement contribution to society . The book also gives some objective record of Mao Yuanxin arriving in this sent-down youths point, and the factory production experimental project of paddy rice which was a scientific project carried out according to the intention from Jiang Qing.

A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother's heartbreaking choice and a daughter's reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and Where Waters Meet.In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her children. In that devastating split second, her seven-year-old daughter, Xiaodeng, is separated from her brother and the mother she loves and trusts. All Xiaodeng remembers of the fateful morning is betrayal.Thirty years later, Xiaodeng is an acclaimed writer living in Canada with a caring husband and daughter. However, her newfound fame and success do little to cover the deep wounds that disrupt her life, time and again, and edge her toward a breaking point. Xiaodeng realizes the only path toward healing is to return to Tangshan, find her mother, and get closure.Spanning three decades of the emotional and cultural aftershocks of disaster, Zhang Ling's intimate epic explores the damage of guilt, the healing pull of family, and the hope of one woman who, after so many years, still longs to be saved.