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gilding the lily
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Categories: words and feelings
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This is a novel similar to Wang Anyi's The Song of Long Hate and Eileen Chang's The Margin of Half a Life. The protagonists of the novel are all women and describe the life of women. The perspective is an era. The novel depicts the life of Liu Yiemei, an artist in the theater of Chinese opera. When the Japanese invaded China, Liu Yemei was six years old and witnessed her father's tragic death under the bayonet of the Japanese army and her mother's capture, she was alone in the city and was taken by the troupe master, Gao Mantian, who was...