Publisher's Synopsis
This book contains 18 novels by Lao She. Crescent Moon is a novella created by Lao She. It was adapted into a movie of the same name in 1986, starring Siqin Gaowa and Song Dandan, and won the 41st Salerno International Film Festival Italy Silver Award. The movie, Crescent Moon describes the tragic story of the heroine Han Yuerong, who was originally clean and self-loving, turned into a prostitute. The film focuses on Han Yuerong's resistance to fate and social injustice, the tragic fate of women at the bottom of the old Beijing society, and accuses the darkness and evil of the old society. No matter how hard you work, the weak woman can only walk towards the path of no return..
