Sun Li's novel, Lotus Lake, was a novel about the lives of rural women in northern China. It told the story of a group of women fighting against the Japanese army on the lotus lake during the Anti-Japanese War. Through vivid descriptions, the novel shows the tenacity and courage of rural women at that time, and also reflects the profound changes in Chinese society during the Anti-Japanese War. The novel was first published in 1982 and has become one of the classic works of Chinese literature.