Bøger af Congwen Shen

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.

The granddaughter of a poor ferryman, Cuicui grows up in Chadong, a small town in China's exotic southwestern frontier, where she is sheltered from the warlord fighting that was prevalent in China in the 1920s. She's caught up in the spell of the local custom of nighttime serenades, but she is also haunted by her grandfather's imminent death.