1949: The Great River, The Great Sea (Expanded and Revised Bestseller Edition)

Eighty years after the end of World War II, we are still asking:

What is war for? How can peace be achieved?
In dangerous times of extreme polarization, it is essential to re-understand the profound meaning of history.
The greatest strength of the powerful actually lies in humility.
And peace is not surrender or submission, but choosing, designing, and investing in one's own future.

　　▍Expanded New Edition of a Bestselling Classic ▍
　　Includes a new preface for 2025
　　Features special essays in response by Peng Ming-min, one of Taiwan's independence movement leaders, and Gao Hua, a historian at Nanjing University

　　From a humanistic perspective, Lung Ying-tai is arguably the first person in mainland China and Taiwan to reflect comprehensively on this period of history. ── Gao Hua

　　While Lung's book may not be a panacea for reconciliation between the two major communities, it is hoped that it can be an opportunity for the two communities to re-engage in serious and sincere dialogue. ── Peng Ming-min

　　A bestseller that has moved countless Chinese souls worldwide, it remains a "banned book" in mainland China.

　　All the displacements,
　　Ultimately flow from great rivers to the sea;
　　All the partings of life and death,
　　Occur at a certain train station, a certain pier.
　　Once you're on the ship, it's a lifetime.

　　A book that opens up the memory of an era, grand and compassionate,
　　Showing you the beloved generation before us,
　　Their unspoken pain.

　　A mother tells her nineteen-year-old son, who is about to be conscripted into the army, her understanding of war.

　　Lung Ying-tai spent ten years in preparation, weaving together interviews, oral accounts, and historical materials, with the most humble and gentle heart, to portray a group of people who were trampled, humiliated, and hurt by their era, yet full of dignity.

　　They have always been by our side, but we have never listened, never truly seen.

　　This is a classic about war, memory, and humanity, and a story that generations of Chinese cannot forget.

2025-10-14

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