Hei shan lu

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The setting is a heavily wooded, bandit-infested mountain pass somewhere in northern China during the Sino-Japanese War. In a dilapidated church lives a sullen young woman and her ferocious mutt. Passing through are strong, silent traders and porters, to whom she dispenses food, foot care and occasional sexual favors. Following an attack by bandits, a brutish porter stays on to tend his injuries and make moves on the woman. She, meanwhile, has the mutual hots for another porter, the handsome, kindlier Sixth Brother.” As tensions rise between the two men, the Japanese arrive to take the place by force…

Hai zi wang

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings.

Xie Yuan – MRQE

Hei shan lu

Hai zi wang