Border Town Snowy Bright - New Curriculum Chinese Reading Series

Author: Shen Congwen
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book represents the peak of Shen Congwen's creative achievement, where he wrote novels in a lyrical style and endowed them with poetic forms. The works embody a "form that is elegant, healthy, natural, yet in harmony with human nature," presenting readers with a pure and beautiful world of Western Hunan. Border Town not only typifies the author's ideal form of life and social thought but also, with its round and complete, concise and fluent structure, unique aesthetic quality, and profound emotional depth, provides a distinctive realm for Chinese lyrical fiction. From content, form to creative intent, the book offers a joyful rhythm like music, resembling a harmonious and tranquil "pastoral song."