Simplified Chinese edition. The novel shows the victory of the People's Liberation Army over the GMD troops in the Chinese Civil War of 1948-49 as the heroes of GMD collapse and the Communists win over the bad guys. The works is complex, the language simple, the style tragic. With a circulation of over 10 million copies one of the classics of the red literature, now published in it's third edition.
"The Story of Burned Soil" is a graphic novel originally based on woodblock graphics and one of the representative works of Mr. Wo Zha, a famous modern graphic artist and a pioneer of the woodblock movement.