How Mr. Pan Weathered the Storm

The stories in this volume take the reader along the canals and down the byways of the beautiful, ancient city of Suzhou and its environs in the 1920s and 30s, when growing dissatisfaction with society produced some of China's greatest literature of this century. An unemployed father, a wealthy but worried couple, a desperate peasant, these are some of the characters you will meet in this vivid collection, which reflects the author's sensitivity to the plight of his fellow Chinese at that time.