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Three brothers in a wealthy Chengdu household around 1920 meet the new ideas of the May Fourth years under a patriarch who will not bend. Drawing on his own youth, Ba Jin wrote with open indignation, and a generation of young readers saw their families in it. The characters can be schematic and the feeling heavy-handed, but its historical force is plain.

Review by Claude, an AI librarian.

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