The Colored-Glaze Family
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy full-length urban novels and care about ordinary people growing up in the city
- Readers interested in Beijing's urban transformation and the lives of new Beijingers
- Readers who prefer solid detail, delicate psychological portrayal, and sincere emotion
- Ordinary readers who want to read continuously in leisure time and follow the rises and falls of characters' fates
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking strong suspense, fast pacing, or genre plotting
- Readers who prefer grand historical narrative or an explicit stance of social critique
- Readers accustomed to short-form reading who find it hard to invest in multi-character, long-arc narratives
Reading tips
- Trace the experiences of Li Feng, Wang Yao, and Wen Xuan separately along their character threads, then compare their intersections and divergences.
- Pay attention to everyday details and psychological portrayal—they are the book's main way of presenting changing times.
- Read in light of your own or others' experience of city life to appreciate the situations behind the characters' choices.
- The book is long; set aside continuous reading time, as fragmented reading weakens the coherence of the characters' fates.
About the publisher
Sino-Culture Press is known for publishing in history, social sciences and traditional Chinese culture, with a further reach into literary appreciation, classic works and foreign literature. Its library of 489 titles includes such works as The Road to Dongpo: The Evolution of Su Shi's Poetic Style, The Poetry and Life of Du Fu, The History of Qin and Han, and Six Hundred Years of the Forbidden City (collector's edition), while A Preliminary Survey of Ancient Architecture in Shanxi and Fen: Hand-drawn Records of Architectural Remains reflects an interest in documenting architectural heritage. Van Loon's Collected Classics and guided-reading editions of works such as Call to Arms and Notre-Dame de Paris serve general readers and classroom use. Its authors include scholars and popular writers such as Fu Junmai, Chen Linlin, Van Loon, Wang Longlin and Guan Ranrong, and biography is another direction. As public information is limited, this note focuses on the publishing profile shown by the titles in the library.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 内容简介
- 作者简介
- 主要人物介绍
- 故事梗概
- 第一部
- 引言
- 第一章 邻居
- 第二章 小玉一家
- 第三章 上海情缘
- 第四章 京城岁月
- 第五章 35号姑娘
- 第六章 秀水街
- 第七章 小米
- 第八章 真爱
- 第九章 二姐
- 第十章 知己
- 第二部
- 第十一章 第一场雪
- 第十二章 彼岸重逢
- 第十三章 舅姥爷
- 第十四章 蜕变
- 第十五章 往事随风
- 第十六章 萍聚
- 第十七章 远去
- 第十八章 与岁月言和
- 尾声
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About the author
Wen Peixin is a Chinese-language book author about whom limited public information is available. What can be confirmed is that their writing falls within the field of social fiction, with the representative work The Glazed Household (Liuli Renjia). According to the library's records, only one work is attributed to Wen Peixin, which is not enough to outline a complete picture of their writing career or personal background; basic details such as dates of birth and death and nationality are not clearly documented. As for The Glazed Household, it is classified as social fiction, a genre that typically draws on real life and uses characters' fates and everyday details to portray social relationships and the ways of the world, so readers may reasonably expect the work to stay close to reality and focus on ordinary people's circumstances and emotions. Because very little verifiable public information exists about the author, broader judgments about their writing style, formative background, and different creative periods cannot yet be discussed and must wait for more works and materials to emerge. This introduction is based only on the facts available in the library and the work's classification, and does not include unconfirmed details such as education, awards, or positions.
