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Ritou is the conclusion of Guan Renshan's trilogy on the fate of the Chinese peasantry (The Heavens and the Earth, The River of Mai, and Ritou). The novel depicts the treacherous changes in Ritou Village in the Jidong Plain over the past half century, and through the intricate and entangled relationships between several generations of the Jin, Kwon, Wang, and Du families, it vividly recreates the colorful and shocking life of the rural areas in northern China during the period of China's social transformation....