In English. 259 pages.
Theseten stories and essays from the '30s and '40s by Professor Wu Zuxiang present a vivid picture of the ordinary people of the period. In "Green Bamboo Hermitage" the heroine eavesdrops on the bedroomconfidences of her nephew and his wife: their grief anatomizes emotion and propriety and lays bare feudal loyalty, filiality and chastity.
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