The Person Who Loved Me the Most on Earth is Gone is a long story recounting the last eighty days and nights of her mother's life.
In her words, she created many female images with different life paths and destinies, and explored the situation of women in contemporary China from her unique perspective.
Zhang Jie was born in Beijing on April 27, 1937,[6] and was raised by her mother in a village in Fushun, in Liaoning Province.
[7][8] In 1960, she graduated from the Department of Statistics in Renmin University of China and went to work for the First Ministry of Machinery Industry.
[2] Zhang endured many pains in her personal life; she supported a family of three generations of women for a long time with her perseverance.
Published in Beijing Literature and Art, the novel immediately attracted the attention of the literary world, and won the Best Short Stories.
It is about the student Sun Changning, the son of a lumberjack, who travels thousands of miles to take an examination in the Central Conservatory of Music in order to please his teacher, one of the most talented musicians of the period.
Zhang's experience working in the First Ministry of Machinery Industry provided her with the inspiration and knowledge to write about this novel on the problems faced by the companies.
On the one hand, it shows the contents of enterprise management and political thought of the Ministry of Heavy Industry in China, and focuses on the efforts of several reformers.
[4] Zhang Jie tried to use the emotional experience of several generations in this novel to break the shackles of Chinese women, but she found that everything was in vain.
The obstacle in their love was that the man, out of gratitude and duty, married the fiancée of his fellow soldier who gave his life to protect the senior official.
The novel describes three high school classmates who leave their husbands to get together in a residential unit after a long and bumpy life, in order to get rid of the pain of reality.
[15] Through realism, it expresses the anxiety, loneliness and desolation of modern intellectual women's life path and spiritual pursuit.