Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Nanjing 1937 |
| author | Ye Zhaoyan |
| ISBN-10 | 0-571-21812-1 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-571-21812-7 |
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| date | 2006-Aug-12 |
An unusual love story around the spoilt university professor Ding Wenyu who completely falls for Yuyuan when he sees her at her wedding party.
The love story as such would make for quite a good reading. However, the book is completely overloaded with historical and political details of the time. Sometimes it reads like a "Who's Who" of chinese politics in 1937. Whereas in chinese culture it might be rather important to know who is friends which who, for the western reader it has the effect of partially drowning the love story.
