The dedication before "Clouds in Beijing" is: Write all the tears and dedicate them to the Japanese invaders. Not a hero's blood, but a free man in China. When Lin Yutang wrote Clouds in Beijing, it coincided with the outbreak of World War II, when Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, and children of all ethnic groups in China struggled to resist Japan.
Lin Yutang deeply loves the great motherland. Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. He believes that as an intellectual who keeps pace with the times in China, he should be duty-bound to bind his own security with the national security at a critical juncture and should be duty-bound to join the camp of saving the country.
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Since Beijing Moment was published in the United States at the end of 1939, it has sold more than 50,000 copies in half a year. The American magazine Time said that it "will probably become a classic about the social reality of modern China".
The sequel "The Clouds in Beijing", Trembling with Wind, was praised by The New York Times as China's Gone with the Wind. Clouds in Beijing, Whistling Wind and Zhumen are collectively called Lin Yutang's trilogy.
1988 version of Smoke in Beijing is a TV series directed by Mars and starring Ren Jianqing and Angie Chiu. 1987 action, 1988 release.
The 2005 edition of Clouds in Beijing is adapted from Lin Yutang's original work of the same name, which is one of the activities of CCTV to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Du Daning, Wang Guohui, Fu Si, Xiao Chun, Li Zhou and Qu Changlin are the chief producers, with Zhang Zien directing and Zhao Wei, Huang Weide and Pan Yueming starring.
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