Essays on Western Hunan (chinese-english)
by Shen Congwen
About This Novel
The eleven works in "Xiangxi Xiangji" include four parts. The first part is two articles from "Congwen's Autobiography", describing the author's growth and transformation from childhood to adolescence. His experiences as a teenager playing truant, addicted to gambling, serving as a soldier, and the environment in western Hunan provided material for his later creations. The four essays in the second part are selected from "Song Notes of a Journey to Hunan". "Although they only write about trivial and ordinary human affairs such as the joys and sorrows of various docks in the Yuanshui River Basin and the trackers and sailors on a small boat, in fact, they all have deep sorrow and hidden worries about their past and present that cannot be easily expressed in words...". The four articles in the third part are selected from "Western Hunan", "which provides a general introduction to the 'personnel' and 'production' of the Yuanshui River Basin and its five local tributaries." The fourth part comes from "The Remaining Manuscripts after the Disaster", which records the grudges and grudges that the author witnessed between a wealthy Manchu family and the Tian family in a neighboring village when he returned to Phoenix in the winter of 1920. It is full of legend.
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