Red Crag

Red Crag, also known as Red Rock, is a 1961 novel based partly on fact by the Chinese authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan, who were former inmates in a Kuomintang prison in Sichuan. It was set in Chongqing during the Chinese Civil War in 1949, and featured underground communist agents under the command of Zhou Enlai fighting an espionage battle against the Kuomintang. The main protagonist, Jiang Xueqin or Sister Jiang, is based on the Communist revolutionary Jiang Zhuyun, and the novel contains a major scene in which Sister Jiang and fellow prisoners embroider the national flag together upon learning of the establishment of the People's Republic of China. A commentator in The Atlantic wrote that the novel played a critical role in the heroism culture of the Mao era.