One Man, One Tree and One Forest: Chinese Stories In Two Stormy Decades After 1949

By Pu Liu

A tree had protected a man by blocking bullets shooting at him and many years later the man's attempt of keeping a piece of wood from that tree became an evidence of his crime on a public criticizing meeting; The man tried to start an afforest plan in order to recover the environment damaged by the Great Leap Forward Movement; A couple of rightists suffering persecution had fall in love and lived still with a positive attitude in spite of all the hardships and unfair treatment they received; A teacher with bad family background had to act against his conscience in order to survive in the Cultural Revolution, but his uncontrolled sexual desire led him seduce a girl. The girl had later become his daughter in law under an arranged marriage he dealt with his son; A young man took an active part in the Cultural Revolution to show his boundless loyalty to Chairman Mao and this loyalty had finally cost his young life. A shaken belief in communism, tireless efforts for repairing the destroyed nature, true love, heartless betrayal and weird relationship among a father, a son and his defiled wife, this book tells all these Chinese stories happened in that disastrous era half a century ago.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508470391
• ISBN13: 9781508470397
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"