While I do in some if not actually in many ways consider Carolyn Treffinger's Li Lun: Lad of Courage both readable and inspiring (that is to say I find the main protagonist's, I find Li Lun's courage, his inventiveness and his skills at solving the multitude of problems that his being sent to plant and grow rice on the unforgiving and harsh mountaintop have engendered, impressive), I am also lastingly and very much angered by the father's ruthless stubbornness and that family "honour" seems to be more important and essential to and for him than even the health and welfare, the life of his son, not to mention that I am also massively annoyed by the fact that even Li Lun's mother (although definitely more sympathetic towards her son) is obviously too meek and too cowed by the father's role as pater familias to be both able and even all that willing to much intercede.
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