Border Town - A Novel

New in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series, Border Town is a classic Chinese novel--banned by Mao''s regime--that captures the ideals of rural China through the moving story of a young woman and her grandfather. Originally published in 1934 by author Shen Congwen, this beautifully written novel tells the story of Cuicui, a young country girl who is coming of age in rural China in the tumultuous time before the communist revolution.

Summary

New in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series, Border Town is a classic Chinese novel—banned by Mao’s regime—that captures the ideals of rural China through the moving story of a young woman and her grandfather. Originally published in 1934 by author Shen Congwen, this beautifully written novel tells the story of Cuicui, a young country girl who is coming of age in rural China in the tumultuous time before the communist revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Shen Congwen, Shen Kinkley Congwen, Jeffrey C Kinkley, Jeffrey C. Kinkley, Kinkley Jeffrey C., Congwen Shen
• Assisted by: Jeffrey C. Kinkley (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9780061436918
• ISBN: 978-0-06-143691-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN: CHINA: LITERATURE, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century