Herstory

Orphaned at a young age, Meng Xiangying suffers brutal abuse from her husband and mother-in-law after marriage, even attempting suicide twice without success. In 1942, with the establishment of the Women's Association, she is elected as a leader and mobilizes local women to survive hardship and resist feudal oppression. She ultimately rises from an abused daughter-in-law to a model of women's liberation and a recognized labor hero.

After the death of her husband, widow Yu Guan suffers oppression from her relatives but finds refuge in Christianity. From an illiterate woman to a preacher, her journey is one of inner conflict, torn between the Christian faith and traditional values. This narrative, spans half a century, capturing the spiritual awakening and struggles of an ordinary woman caught in the cultural crossfire.

A secret letter. A forbidden desire. A love that defies morality.Set in the transformative May Fourth era, The Room Beside the Sea tells the story of Keou, a young man who uncovers the truth behind his cousin's loveless marriage and finds himself drawn to his cousin's wife-Telly. What begins as sympathy soon turns into a forbidden affair that challenges every social rule they've known.This powerful psychological novel explores the tension between tradition and individual freedom, desire and guilt, love and restraint. With lyrical prose and intimate detail, Telly offers a moving portrait of emotional repression, youthful confusion, and a desperate search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Born in Mei County, Guangdong Province (now Meijiang District, Meizhou) in 1893, Zhang Ziping graduated from the Department of Geology, College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University in April 1922.He began writing in 1913 and published his novel The Water of the Yuetan River in January 1920. In 1921, he participated in the organization of the Creation Society. Therefore, his works were shed on the spirit of the May 4th in this period, which disclosed the hypocrisy of religion or described the lives of the lower classes of the Japanese people. His representative work is the novel Alluvial Fossils. In 1934, he became chief editor of National Literature, a nationalistic literary publication where he created a large number of romantic novels, with an anti-feudal tendency, which simply the triangular or polygonal relationship between men and women.