Introduction to Chi Li's Missing the Infamous Days

Missing the Infamous Days was a story about a young woman's lonely and painful childhood and youth in a Chinese village in the 1980s. She experienced family changes, mental trauma, and self-redemption. The novel, with its unique narrative style and profound human thinking, shows the living conditions and psychological predicament of people in the social and cultural background at that time. It is regarded as a classic of modern Chinese novels.