These twelve stories represent the best work of respected "nativist" writer Cheng Ch'ing-wen and encompass his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity.
Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. The noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan in a novelistic, epoch-defining narrative.
In five stories with a continuing cast of characters and many of the qualities of a novel, Memories of Peking: South Side Stories portrays Peking of the 1930s as seen through the eyes of a little girl. These stories differ greatly from many other books on life in China -- whether about past times or the present day -- in that they neither dwell on politics nor try to propound beliefs of any kind. The stories are simple, direct, and personal. The reader experiences life in Peking through the eyes and innocent mind of the child. The author is well known for her perception and humor. She handles with great sensitivity and lyricism the sense of loss and bewilderment that arouses the child's awareness of the uncertainties of human relationships, even of life itself, and which finally catapults her away from childhood joys into the sorrows of the adult world.
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