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Home Village by Wang Yuewen: A Painterly Chronicle of China’s Rural Heartbeat

Wang Yuewen’s Home Village (家山) is a novel of profound resonance—rooted in the soil of southern China, yet expansive in its thematic reach. Spanning the tumultuous decades from the twilight of the Qing Dynasty to the cusp of the People’s Republic, this work doesn’t merely chronicle the changing fate of a village—it distils the emotional […]