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Father’s Back and Other Essays

Zhu Ziqing

Father’s Back and Other Essays

Paper book: €11.99

Digital: €1.99

Original publication
1928
Monolingual
22 October 2026
Pages
39
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Poetic, Biography and Autobiography
Moods
Be moved to tears, Savour the writing, Understand myself
Translated from
Chinese

Book summary

This little collection brings together Zhu Ziqing's most famous prose pieces. In “The Sight of Father's Back”, a clumsy father crosses the tracks at a station to buy oranges for his son. Elsewhere, the author walks at night around a lotus pond under the moon, or glides in a boat along the Qinhuai River in Nanjing.

Studied in every school in China, these texts have made this father seen from behind one of the most moving memories in Chinese literature.

Short, tender and very musical, they can be read one by one, at your own pace, in the language you are learning.

The plot

Отец провожает сына на поезд. Молодой человек возвращается в Пекин учиться. Отец провожает его до поезда, на вокзале Пукоу, близ Нанкина. Потом он хочет купить сыну апельсины на другой платформе. Медлительный и…

The world of the book

Китай 1920-х годов. Поезд соединяет Нанкин и Пекин, но через великую реку Янцзы ещё нет моста: чтобы ехать на север, сначала садятся в лодку. Меняется и литература: писатели откладывают старый язык учёных и пишут так…

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