China's Great Contemporary Literature 1: To Live, Learn Mandarin Fast, Improve Vocabulary, Easy Lessons, Epic Chinese Novels, Captivating Stories (Simplified Characters, Pinyin, Graded Reader Level 5)

To Live (Alive, 活着), one of the writer Yu Hua's (余华) masterpieces (代表作), narrates the sufferings of Xu Fugui (徐福贵) in the context of an era that witnessed the civil war (内战), Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns (三反五反运动), the Great Leap Forward (大跃进), the Cultural Revolution (文化大革命) and several other social changes. Xu Fugui and his family continued to suffer through to the end. In fact, all relative left him successively, leaving only the old man and an old cow to live together. As such, "To...