Abstract: Funeral by Hoda,describing series of things happened in an old and well-known family involving in sales of jade at Beijing, focused on its portrait of Han Ziqi, Liang Junbi, Liang Bingyu, Han Xinyue and other characters, and revealed their spiritual development and confusion about true meaning of life under culture shock between Islamic and Chinese culture, between political and religious differences during long and difficult trail of Muslim in China. This book also castigated inhuman regulations and values, vividly illustrated some traditional Muslim beliefs has become an obstacle for its development, it also showed that Muslim had to break off these constraints to get better. The author also showed complex human nature, praised both pure, sincere and beautiful love, as well as the most valuable freedom in this novel with dualistic priorities and seamless structure, Beijing Style and strong national colors; at same time, novel has some drawbacks such as stiff descriptions of Muslim rituals, big gap of Han Ziqi's character.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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