The Winding Dirt Road by Jiu Da

The Winding Dirt Road

By Jiu Da

Publication Date: May 27th, 2025

Publisher: Historium Press

Pages: 391

Genre: Chinese Historical Fiction / Political Fiction

Written as an antithesis to all first-hand and second-hand propaganda written by both Chinese and foreign writers for China in the good part of the 20th century in a fictional form, this collection, through different times and lands, gives insights into how human docile nature and characteristics are manipulated and brought about cultural and social corrosion over the century. The outcome thus sees "a monumental loss breathtakingly massive than any period that preceded it." Subsequently, it foreshadows a system that "would bring out not the best but the worst in people, against people, any people." (Event Horizon)

 

The first story is written as an introduction in addition to the prologue. From there, the collection proceeds with interrelated subjects or topics, building up causes and factors. At every turn, it gathers momentum and convenes halfway through the book to form the major components of critical perspectives at a juncture.

 

Hoarded in the depth of memories of the past decades, this has been a work long overdue.

Excerpt

"Not far away, hundreds crossed a frozen lake, whose trousers got drenched and quickly frozen up while their guns jammed. Scores moved like unpliable chunks of wood and fell halfway through. Impelled by 'Nothing we Chinese communists cannot do,' more followed in a tactical gambit, more human trunks fell." 

~ I Am Going Home

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Jiu Da

For years, Jiu Da has been intrigued by the question of whether the environment makes us who we are or whether we are the ones that shape our environment.

For the good parts of early years, he stubbornly believed that motivation, talent, and effort could change the outcomes. It did not.

It was not until the virus hit while finding himself perching at home that he came to accept that the environment is indeed the hand that shapes human behavior.

It was during this time that he began his first work, drawing from his love in literature, history and a lifetime of seemingly useless yet fascinating knowledge hoarded in the depth of his mind.

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