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.