New Stories (hong Kong Literature and Culture Series of the 1960s)

About This Novel

The new editor of the story refers to the previous text, rewrites it and gives the story new meaning. This book contains four new stories: "The Treasure Chest Sinking in Anger", "Meng Jiangnu", "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" and "Splitting the Mountain to Save the Mother", which were serialized in newspapers and periodicals in the 1960s by the famous Hong Kong writer Liu Yichang. The story of "Meng Jiangnu" about the collapse of the Great Wall, "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" about their meeting on the magpie bridge and "Splitting the Mountain to Save Mother" are adapted from myths about agarwood overcoming all odds to save her mother's family; "The Sinking of the Treasure Box" about the famous prostitute Du Shiniang is adapted from a classical novel. The four novels, which have been dormant in old newspapers for many years, are now combined into a book for the first time. The novels retain rich raw materials of myths and legends and have made great contributions to the preservation and dissemination of folk literature. They are also meaningful for examining the development trajectory of Liu Yichang and Hong Kong literature. Liu Yichang's new stories have always been highly praised, and this work is different from Liu Yichang's experimental explorations such as "In the Temple" and "Spider Spirit", with simple and delicate writing. Liu Yichang used his rich knowledge of folk literature to rewrite the stories of Du Shiniang, Meng Jiang, Weaver Girl and Our Lady of Mount Huashan, describing the tortured lives of the four women, thereby expressing his care for women, especially the working-class women of Hong Kong in the 1960s. This is a work rich in cultural significance.

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