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To Live

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To Live	label	To Live
To Live	page	ToLive
To Live	comment	To Live (in traditional Chinese: 活着; in simplified: 活著; pronounced Huózhe in Mandarin) is a 1993 novel by Yu Hua. Our nameless narrator meets an old man in the countryside who tells him his life story. This is how it goes.After losing all of his family's land and fortune to gambling debts, Fugui stops being a Rich Bitch Jerkass and begins life as an honest, hardworking family man. Too bad life doesn't let him.After he is conscripted by the Kuomintang and must leave his family, Fugui fights and sees the horrors of the Chinese Civil War, returning to him home years later to suffer the tumultuous changes that the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward has wrought.The book's most prevalent theme is that people should keep on living for the sake of life, despite their various mishaps and tragedies. To Live is also rather well-known for its description of Chinese life in Red China, such as its illustrations of backyard steel furnaces and communes.A movie of To Live came out in 1994, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Ge You and Gong Li.
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To Live / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
To Live / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Fengxia
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To Live / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
To Live / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: It takes Fugui losing all his family's funds and plunging them into poverty to make him stop being such a gigantic selfish Jerkass.
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To Live / int_31c4280	type	Conscription
To Live / int_31c4280	comment	Conscription: Fugui and his companions are pressed into serving first the Nationalist army, then the Communists when they're captured.
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To Live / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
To Live / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Fugui starts off as an arrogant Jerkass who blatantly disrespects his family, spends all his money on whorehouses and gambling, and hitting his pregnant wife, but eventually grows into a hardworking man who is extremely devoted to his family.
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To Live / int_3d7b1b61	type	Twice Shy
To Live / int_3d7b1b61	comment	Twice Shy: Erxi and Fengxia. He's a quiet, hardworking Party official and she's, well, mute.
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To Live / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
To Live / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Downplayed example. Despite everything that's happened to him and everyone that he's lost, Fugui still holds onto life by believing that things will get better.
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To Live / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
To Live / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Compared to the novel, the film ends on a more optimistic note. Fugui and Jiazhen lose their children Youqing and Fengxia, but their grandson Mantou and son-in-law Erxi are still alive and part of their lives. The film ends with their family happily having lunch together at home.
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To Live / int_40f3b23a	type	FilmOfTheBook
To Live / int_40f3b23a	comment	Film of the Book
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To Live / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
To Live / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: After being a gigantic asshole for most of the beginning of the novel, Fugui turns into a deeply penitent man after he loses his family's fortune to gambling debts.
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To Live / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
To Live / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: In addition to being a generally shitty husband, father and son prior to his Character Development, Fugui also slapped and beat Jiazhen when she was pregnant with Youqing.
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To Live / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
To Live / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Young Fugui had his family's fortune and was generally an awful human being.
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To Live / int_646407bd	type	We Named the Monkey "Jack"
To Live / int_646407bd	comment	We Named the Monkey "Jack": Fugui names his ox after himself.
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To Live / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
To Live / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Jiazhen, Erxi and Fugui's grandson all survive to the end of the movie. In the novel, they all die under various circumstances, leaving Fugui the only main character to live.
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To Live / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
To Live / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: If Fugui didn't lose his family estate and holdings through reckless gambling early on, he and his family would have been killed in the revolution as capitalists. He recalls being horrified that he narrowly avoided the fate of the man who ended up living in his house.
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To Live / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
To Live / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Initially, Fugui appears as a negligent Spoiled Brat who spends his family's entire fortune on gambling and as an uncaring and even abusive husband who has no qualms about hitting his pregnant wife. He becomes better as the story progresses.
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To Live / int_91c001	type	Cute Mute
To Live / int_91c001	comment	Cute Mute: Fengxia
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To Live / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
To Live / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Youqing and Fengxia, Fugui and Jiazhen's children, die throughout the story. Even further played with their grandson, who dies too.
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To Live / int_a8c903e6	type	Now, Let Me Carry You
To Live / int_a8c903e6	comment	Now, Let Me Carry You: When Jiazhen gets soft bone disease and becomes so weak she can't walk, Fugui carries her on his back, and, when she protests, hushes her and says there is absolutely nothing wrong with showing his love for his wife.
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To Live / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
To Live / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Fugui said that when he saw Jiazhen walking down the street, she looked so beautiful that he immediately asked her father for her hand in marriage.
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To Live / int_ad0439be	type	The Gambler
To Live / int_ad0439be	comment	The Gambler: Fugui's downfall earlier on in his life.
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To Live / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
To Live / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Jiazhen
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To Live / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
To Live / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: When Fengxia finally gets married and there's a brief period where all is well, she dies in childbirth. But hey, Fugui still has his wife, his son-in-law, and his grandkid to mourn with and comfort him, right? Then Jiazhen dies, Erxi dies, and his grandson (Kugen) dies by choking on some beans.
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To Live / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
To Live / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Zhang's vision for the work is far less grim than Yu's; for one thing, Jiazhen, Erxi, and the grandson (named Mantou in the adaptation) all survive. The movie version downplays Fugui's abuse of Jiazhen, and ends after Fengxia's death so as not to be quite so soul-crushing as the book.
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To Live / int_e3da6e6c	type	Deus Angst Machina
To Live / int_e3da6e6c	comment	Deus Angst Machina: Most of Fugui's family die in most senseless ways, the most notable being Erxi being the first porter to be crushed by the slabs of cement, and his grandkid dying by choking on beans.
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To Live / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
To Live / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Fugui when he was younger. He even lampshades it himself:
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To Live / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
To Live / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Alas, Jiazhen.
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To Live / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
To Live / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Fugui is forcibly recruited into the Nationalist Army during the Chinese Civil War, and, well...see the Nightmare Fuel entry above.
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To Live / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
To Live / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Jiazhen's shown to be a quiet, submissive person up to the point of an Extreme Doormat, but goes into full Mama Bear completely when she meets the man who inadvertently helped kill her son.
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To Live / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
To Live / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When Jiazhen tearfully leaves, she tells Fugui that their unborn child is going to be named "don't gamble." When he returns, he's relieved she didn't actually do it. Much later (after many years and chapters) when the two wonder what Fengxia's child will be named, Fugui offers "don't gamble" and it's actually funny.
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To Live	seeAlso	To Live
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To Live	hasFeature	Deus Angst Machina / int_d37ed654
To Live	hasFeature	Disabled Love Interest / int_d37ed654
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To Live	hasFeature	Red China / int_d37ed654
To Live	seeAlso	To Live
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