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.