Border Town: A Novel

Border Town: A Novel

<p>New in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series, <i>Border</i><i> Town </i>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, <em>this beautifully written novel </em>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.</p>