Women on the Urban Fringe

Author: Yu Chuan
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Popular Library · World Affairs Novel Series. Unveiling social secrets and portraying the emotions of ordinary people. They come from impoverished rural areas, filled with fantasies about the luxurious and dazzling city life. Yet, their only capital to enter the city is a pair of hardworking hands and a youthful body. The author experiences the distortion and suppression of human nature in fierce competition, authentically documenting the subtle entirety of an era. Readers can find their own shadows and feelings in these words, their hopes or disappointments, joys or sorrows, sweetness or pain. I often chat with the foreign farmers living near my residence, who speak with various accents. These people, immersed in the city, are so far from true urban life that they seem to never be able to truly integrate into the city.