—Remark on 《Son At the Same Age of China》

ByChuanbing Ma

　　Novelsusually can describe the world with its thoroughly depiction, a piece of graincan mirror the world and a drop of water can reflect the shine of the sun, thisnovel just like the grain and the drop of water, the readers can see the greatchanges of China, since the founding of new China till today’s China. Anyforeign friends who want to know China

　　well, the novel will be very helpful to read China。

　　Thenovel is very realism, consists of four volumes, named 《Son Atthe Same Age of China》. The author YumingWei is a great writer who likes to write the realism works, with its thoroughdepiction he wants to tell the world what happened in China. Just like a skilled horsemanwho can ride horse and run wildly and also can walk very slowly, sometimes itis like the storm, and sometimes it is like the sunshine, the author is veryskilled at describing the world. History is like a brook running before you,the events are the water flowers, which makes you very excited。

　　Thisnovel described the stories happened in Anping city of North China, a heavyindustrial city, about the dramatis personae who has the same age as the new China,.The name of the book mirrored the thinking of the author, that is to say, thebook is not only focusing on personal stories but also the stories of China。

　　The birth of the dramatispersonae, Xinhua Zhu (which means Congratulations on birth of New China) was onthe same day of new China’sfounding,1st of October in 1949, this was very coincident, the cryof the baby has the character of that time, its fate has also directconnections with new China.It took the author’s more than one million words to write the four volumes,according to the development logic of new China’s history. The first volumefocused on the 7 years story about the new China after its birth; the secondvolume focused on the 10 years happening of socialism building; the thirdvolume focused on the 10 years’ Great Culture Revolution; the fourth volumefocused on the changes during the Reform and Open period. The half-century’sgreat changes condensed into the small city, the small book, and the small partof the world. Very realism and also epic, desired to have a look。

　　In this novel, theguy who was at the same age of new China, acted as the main character,all the people who has some connections with him directed all the love andbitterness stories to him and also the surrounding people, mixed with thepassion to the whole country, especially for Xinhua Zhu。

　　Thedramatis personae Xinhua Zhu was also the mirror of the author, Yuming Wei,every novel reflects the author’s footprints, just like its own legend。

　　Thedepiction was very colorful, vivid, it emphasized on the heavy loss thedramatis personae has contributed in running for the idealism and perfection.Xinhua Zhu bared himself in Shanghai just in order to get the ordinarytreatment; strived for the whole life to battle against Xiaoniu Lu, Chunxin Li,who represented the powerful sides who blocked him to enjoy the ordinary people’streatment; his father, Guodong Zhu also lost too much in running for his ownhappiness; his stepmother, Yuezhu Han, devoted all her life to getting theperfect marriage; Jiayi Fang has to move abroad in order to escape something.All of these situations have told you the miserable stories at that time, anddepicted the juvenility and the zigzag of the new China。

　　Withfurther depiction, the characters’ stories have disclosed the new ear of China,both the success and some failures, including the pollution and the gangsterdomphenomena. That is the real China。

　　Inall, the author described the half-century’s history with four volumes, he hasdevoted a lot to disclose what happened in China. It is a good work for Chinesepeople, and also a good novel for foreigners who want to know about China。