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Divine Principle and Human Desire
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The second in a trilogy about peasants, Tian Li and Human Desire is a masterpiece that depicts the relationship between peasants and morality. It is the second book in a trilogy of peasant stories. It tells the tragic story of a village on the banks of the Shu River in Shandong Province: the old patriarch wanted to train his entire clan to be "gentlemen", and he practiced it, even to the point of self-mutilation, turning the clan's scandalous deeds into scars on his face; his heir, when he came to power, wanted to build the village into a place where everyone was...