AI WU

Steeled and Tempered

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1961. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. 437 p. Fine in lightly worn d.w. [37957]

"A novel of China's steelworkers. Chin Teh-kuei, a young Communist Party member, is sent by the Party after the liberation to a job in the steel industry. Working here with the same revolutionary enthusiasm and selflessness as in the days when he was a guerrilla fighter, he quickly becomes a skilled steel-maker and 'model worker.' In the van of the movement to introduce high-speed methods to steel-making, his drive comes into conflict with the individualistic and conservative ideas of the backward elements in the plant, among them the factory manager, bogged down in bureaucracy. The struggle between these two lines - a struggle which becomes inextricably mixed up with the course of his love for a girl collegaue - the attempt of the counter-revolutionaries to take advantage of the situraion, and the victory for revolutionary ideas under the able leadership of the plant's new Party secretary, make a taut and exciting climax" - "Catalogue of Chinese Literature in English"

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