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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

Người cha đưa con trai ra tàu. Một chàng trai trở lại Bắc Kinh để học. Cha anh đưa anh ra tàu ở ga Phổ Khẩu, gần Nam Kinh. Rồi ông muốn mua cam cho con ở sân ga bên kia. Chậm chạp và hơi béo, ông phải leo xuống đường…

The world of the book

Trung Quốc những năm 1920. Tàu hỏa nối Nam Kinh với Bắc Kinh, nhưng chưa có cây cầu nào bắc qua sông Trường Giang rộng lớn: muốn đi lên phía bắc, trước hết phải đi thuyền. Văn chương cũng đổi thay: các nhà văn gác lại…

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