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The Border Town

work by Shen Congwen

Also known as: “Biancheng”

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…works of fiction, Biancheng (1934; The Border Town; filmed 1984) is generally considered his best; in it he combines his doubts about modern civilization with an idealized view of the beauty of rural life. Collections of his stories published in English include The Chinese Earth (1947; reprinted 1982), Recollections of…
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