浴火重生（英文版）

　　二十世纪九十年代以前，中国的

　　徐剑，云南昆明人，第二炮兵政治部文艺创作室主任，国家一级作家，乘文学的双翼，飞翔于中国战略导弹部队的万里天疆和西藏的天边天蓝，著有《岁月之河》、《大国长剑》、《鸟瞰地球》、《水患中国》、《江南草药王》、《砺剑灞上》、《导弹旅长》、《麦克马洪线》（待出）等作。 Xu Jian is the author of several fictional works， among them Oriental Hada， as well as essays and TV drama. He has also penned a number of works of reportage， including McMahon Line and The Oriental Express. Swords of a Rising Power won the first Lu Xun Literature Prize in 1998.

Preface — As the Northeast “Red Double” Fades out of Sight   7
CHAPTER 1  Tiexi: the Ruhr of China   13
1.The Ruhr: an Important Manufacturing Base in 20th
   Century Germany  13
2. Father and Son in Tiexi       16
3. A Forgotten Story from the Manchukuo  26
4. Tiexi: the Eldest Son of the PRC and the Task of Industrialization 37
5. Landmark of Tiexi: the ree Chimneys  43
CHAPTER 2 Dreams and Honors 50
1. The Female Model Worker of Hao Jianxiu’s Generation 50
2. The Various “Firsts” of the PRC 59
3. Traveling Up North and Down South for the Sake
of Industrialization 63
4. Six Members of the Standing Committee of the CPC
Center in Shenyang Aircra Factory 73
5. e Strength of Workers 81
6. A Family of Steel in the Age of Passion 91
CHAPTER 3 Paradise in New Workers’ Suburb 100
1.The Clock Was Ticking in China When Paradise Was Built 100
2. An Ideal Marriage in New Workers’ Suburb 106
3. A Young Girl’s Gaze Upon the Paradise 110
CHAPTER 4 Young Death of the Eldest Son Tiexi 116
1.The First Falling Camel in the Desert 116
2.The  Sad Memories that One Cannot Bear to ink of 124
3. Escape from Fate 134
4.The Professor Who Worked in Ansteel 146
CHAPTER 5 The Fall of the Paradise 151
1.The Five Yin Girls and a Sunken Ship of a State-Owned
Company 151
2. Nine Years of Romance and a Tragedy A er the Wedding 158
3.The  Female Model Worker that Ran the Bookstand
in Donghu Peddlers’ Market 168
CHAPTER 6 In Front of the Gate to Purgatory 177
1. Cursed for Life 177
2. Dreaming in the Tin Cottage in the Street 185
3. A Life Like in Ashes 194
4. Homeless When the Sun Sets 202
CHAPTER 7  e Twist of Fate 211
1.The Transform of Shenyang Transformer Works 211
2. Two Generations’ Struggle and the Reputation of Longfeng Mine 221
3. A Family of Port Workers 230
CHAPTER 8 Move the East and Transform the West 239
1. A Document Dra ed at the Risk of Life during
the Time of SARS 239
2.The Merge of Tiexi and Zhangshi Development Zone 245
3. The Sale of the First Piece of Land in Old Tiexi 250
4. Past and Present of North 2nd Street 257
5. Museum of Foundry: a Historical Symbol of the Age of Steel 262
CHAPTER 9 The Tragedy of the Mining Capital 270
1. Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee in Tears
in the Shantytown 270
2. A Diffcult Reality: the Intergenerational Transmission
of Poverty 273
3. Tragedy in the Mining Capital 278
4.The Woman that Married into Modi 281
5.The Bird of Sun Rising from the Ashes 289
CHAPTER 10 Love in the Broken Ridges and Steep Cli s 297
1. Mother’s Love and the Redemption in Endless Torture 297
2. Family’s Support in Most Difficult Times 305
3. Sisterly Love that Made the Golden Flowers Bloom 315
CHAPTER 11 Bounce Back in the East Wind 328
1.The  History of the Department of Northeast China Industry
and the Bureau of Northeast China 328
2. A Tailored Plan for Each Factory 334
3.The Rebuilding of the Model Workers’ Building
in a Lost Paradise 340
4. Children of Laohutai Mine’s Resettlement in Newly-Built
Apartments 349
5. Payment Slips of Fushun Coal Mining Group in the First
Decade in the New Century 355
CHAPTER 12 The Bird of Sun Sings in Northeast China 361
1. Liaoning’s New Perspective Towards the Sea 361
2.The University-Educated Supervisory Worker’s House
and Car 367
3. A Fight with Back to the Wall: Maglev and the Rebirth
of Zhongjie 374