Eleven stories about China in the 1920s. We meet a widow whom the whole village shuns at New Year, a disappointed scholar drinking alone in an inn, a young couple driven apart by poverty, and a man who wants to put out the everlasting lamp in his village temple.
After “Call to Arms”, Lu Xun, the greatest modern Chinese writer, offers more intimate stories here, which show with tenderness and clarity a country in the midst of change.
The stories are short and can be read one by one, in the language you are learning.
