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smoke and fire
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Categories: metropolis
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The long novel "Fireworks" is written from 1840 in Tianjin to the founding of New China, a span of more than one hundred years. The story begins in a hutong called "Hou Jia Hou" outside the north gate of Tianjin's old city. Tianjin's folklore, customs, marketplace culture, and all sorts of minor characters unfold like a long scroll against the backdrop of history's stormy winds and clouds. A young man named "Lai Zi", who was once an ignorant...