The second book in the trilogy, The Desolate Village, follows Taiwan's anti-Japanese movement from military resistance to its later non-violent stage, using this as a backdrop against which he sets the coming together of farming families into the Farmers 'Movement.
第二部《荒村》，則以台灣抗日運動從「武爭」進入「文鬥」的非武力抗日階段為背景，描寫以農民組合為主體的農民運動。