Bøger i Bilingual Series in Modern Chinese Literature serien

This collection of short stories reveals the plight and strength of the common Chinese people. There are contradictions between the ""new"" and the ""old"", and also between human values with enough integrity to nurture life, versus corruption that leads to the decline and death of a culture.

This collection carries some of Xiao Hong's most famous short stories such as ""On the Oxcart"", ""Spring in a Small Town"", ""The Family Outsider"", ""Flight from Danger"", ""Vague Expectations"", ""Hands"" and ""The Bridge"".

This play portrays the life of the owner of a Beijing teahouse and his customers through 50 years of upheaval in China. Spanning from 1898 to the late 1940s, scenes change from late Qing dynasty to the early days of the Republic, then after to post-1945 when Guomindang soldiers take over the city.