The Golden Road describes a young man of humble urban origins in
China's lower Yangzi Valley who foresees the opportunities for
wealth and position in the early years of Deng Xiaoping's "reform
and opening up" policies and who then over the next twenty years
creates a diversified business empire. This novel thus tells of the
reemergence in China of a dynamic, often reckless and shady,
commercial class during the momentous transformation of that
country during the Deng Xiaoping era. Business people used many
tricks as well as connections with the local power structure to
survive and succeed in the fiercely competitive business world of
China in the 1980's and 1990's. However, quite apart from
presenting a picture of the roiling business world of post-Maoist
China, The Golden Road is a bildungsroman of a young man's coming
of age and his education in life through his successive
relationships with four beautiful, talented, but indeed very
different, women and the effect they had on him. As Harvard
Professor of Chinese Literature, David Der-wei Wang writes in his
incisive foreword to this book, the author, Zhang Da-Peng has made
a significant contribution to the relatively new (by the timeline
of Chinese literature) but vibrant tradition of Chinese novels
portraying the endeavors of businessmen and their interactions with
society in times of major social change.
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