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    Sailing Across the Red Storm

    By John Xiao Zhang

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    Just as A Tale of Two Cities portrayed the French Revolution and Doctor Zhivago the Russian Revolution, Sailing across the Red Storm is a deeply moving tale set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A love story in the Romeo and Juliet style, this compelling historical novel recounts the suffering and ordeals of a handsome and talented young man, together with his lovers, friends and family, throughout the cataclysm of this revolution. Overcoming these trials, they gain strength from love, friendship and self-sacrifice; they bravely overcome hardship and suffering, striving for hope and a brighter future.  
    Through rich character portrayal and meticulous description, the readers will gain a panoramic view of this huge historic event and insight not only into this turbulent era, but also into the strength of humanity as it shines brightest in the darkness through a period of great terror and misery. Both epic in scope and personal in detail this novel will give a much greater understanding in the West of the momentous time that made up the Cultural Revolution in China.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTroubador Publishing Ltd
    Release dateDec 6, 2019
    ISBN9781838597801
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    John Xiao Zhang

    John Xiao Zhang was born in Northeast China in 1949. He undertook a variety of jobs during the Cultural Revolution before going to University and then becoming a lecturer at Beijing Language University. He moved to the UK in 1988 and has since worked as a lecturer and freelance writer. He has previously published books on Shakespeare and other literary subjects.

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    • 5/5
      Sailing Across The Red Storm is a historical novel with an angelic love story.  It is also like an English language text book to me, it is beautiful English with a wide vocabulary .  Yet it is easy to read which is very important for common people like myself, that we can continue with it to the very end and get the full benefits of the reading.  I think this is the hard part of it, a show of the author's writing abilities and skills, not to mention the endless twists and turns in the 10-year turbulence.  I see the whole novel as though it is an architecture; a big number of people is in the act, and yet in the end, there is no loose ends, i.e. everybody is taken care of as to how he/she comes out of the Cultural Revolution.  The main character, Zhang Feng, at the end of his nightmare, comes to thank each and everyone who touched on his life in his darkest times.  Some of the people turned bad at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution because of their naiveness in their youth or re-acting to motivation or greed, but most come to realise of their wrongs as time goes - a demonstration of how the author sees the world thru his kindness.  While there is a loss of 10 years of valuable time and life for all, the kind and strong come out of the turmoil pretty well, staying positive and starting a new life.   The 10-year of Cultural Revolution, what on earth?!