Mao Dun published both of these short stories, "The Shop of the Lin
Family" and "Spring Silkworms, " in 1932. The first tells the story of a
shop selling foreign goods in a small town in China, which Zhu Ziqing
considers the best work written by Mao Dun. The second is about a silk
weaver, Old Tong Bao, who takes very good care of his silkworms, until
the armed conflicts caused by the Japanese in Shanghai in 1932 ruined
his business. The stories are available here for the first time in
traditional Chinese characters.