"Red Rose and White Rose" Author: Zhang Ailing Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House

◑ Zhang Ailing's short and medium-length novels. This collection includes short and medium-length novels written between 1944 and 1947, including "When We Were Young", "Flowers wither", "Hongluan Jubilee", "Red Rose and White Rose", "The End of the Play", "Yin Baoyan Sends Flowers to the Tower", "Osmanthus Steams Xiao's Sad Autumn", "Waiting", "Sentiment", "Genesis", "Tulips", and "How Much Hate".

◑In this world, there is no emotion that is not riddled with holes. ——《Staying Mercy》

◑Perhaps every man has had two such women, at least two. Marrying a red rose, over time, the red becomes a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, while the white is still "the bright moonlight in front of the bed"; marrying a white rose, the white becomes a grain of rice stuck on the clothes, while the red is a cinnabar mole on the heart. ——"Red Rose and White Rose"

◑Only young people are free. When we get older, we sink inch by inch into the quagmire of habit. Not getting married, not having children, and avoiding a fixed life are useless. Lonely people have their own quagmire. ——"When We Were Young"

◑New hardcover, exquisite collection, the eternal legend built by the moon.

Zhang Ailing is a modern Chinese writer. Her ancestral home is Fengrun, Hebei. She was born in Shanghai in September 1920 and died in Los Angeles, USA in September 1995. Zhang Ailing was deeply influenced by Chinese classical literature and received a good Western education, thus forming a literary vision that combines both Chinese and Western cultures. Her works mostly focus on the fate of ordinary people, have insight into the subtleties of human nature, and have a strong sense of history. She writes about the lives of all beings in a time of great change, with rich imagery and a unique desolate literary style. On the basis of inheriting the Chinese literary tradition, she has built her own rich and unique literary world.