China Youth Daily Client News (China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Jiang Xiaobin) Famous writer and screenwriter Shi Zhongshan's novel "Asking the Vast Land" was recently published by the People's Literature Publishing House. On March 20, the launch ceremony of the new book was held in the form of an online live broadcast.
On the eve of the liberation of northeast China, Bi Jian, chief of the intelligence section of the Social Department of the Northeast Bureau, and the Kuomintang agent code-named "Old Master" began to exhaust the "cat and mouse game" of his life, and the one who was ordered to pretend to be the wife of "Old Master" was actually the sister of Bi Jian's lover who had been lost for many years, and the fates of several characters were entangled with each other, stirring up a string of waves in the tide of the times.
Shi Zhongshan called "Asking the Vast Land" an "atypical" spy war novel, because this work does not focus on the ups and downs of the plot and the intricate character relationship like a typical spy war drama, but focuses on the contest between people and the fate of the characters in the background of the big era. He believes that the fate of each character in the work is inseparable from the times.
The famous critic Meng Fanhua believes that Shi Zhongshan's previous military-themed novels contributed to shaping a new military image, such as "Shi Glory" in "The Years of Burning Passion", which is different from the flawless character image of the past. And "Ask the Vast Land", Meng Fanhua prefers to see it as an "anti-special novel". From the success of the series of works "Latent" to "Cliff", spy dramas have become a trend, such works are written by our personnel to break into the enemy's interior, and Shi Zhongshan's new work continues the tradition of "anti-special themes" in classic works such as "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel" and "Secret Drawings".
Zang Yongqing, president of the People's Literature Publishing House, said that from the eve of the liberation of Northeast China to the reform and opening up, such a long span of time has brought a heavy sense of history, and it is expected that the book "can be loved by the majority of readers and have the next step of film and television adaptation."
Since Shi Zhongshan published his debut novel in "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" at the age of 20, he has published more than 100 novels and novel collections. His novel "Father Goes to the City" was adapted into the TV series "The Years of Burning Passion" to cause a sensation, and since then a large number of novels have been adapted into film and television works, "Shi Guangrong and His Children", "Happiness Is Like a Flower", "Brothers in the World", "Military Song Loud", "Mainland Island" and so on.
Source: China Youth Daily client