Border Town

<p>New in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series <em>Border</em><em> Town </em>is a classic Chinese novel--banned by Mao's regime--that captures the ideals of rural China through the moving story of a young woman and her grandfather. Originally published in 1934 by author Shen Congwen <em>this beautifully written novel </em>tells the story of Cuicui a young country girl who is coming of age in rural China in the tumultuous time before the communist revolution.<p></p></p>