Old Stage: Selected Novellas by Feng Junke
by Feng Junke
About This Novel
This book is a collection of novellas published by the author Feng Junke in recent years in "Contemporary", "October", "Chinese Writers", "Beijing Literature" and other publications, including "Old Stage", "Silence", "Where to Place", "Letter from Damascus", "Brother, How's It Done", "A Street Full of Dust" and "Notes from Jianliang Village". The stories in these novels all take place in the same place. A county chronicle records Jianliang Village with a history of more than two thousand years. Jian, Jianshui, the name of water, in Henan Province, China. Jianliang is a large embankment built next to the Jian River in ancient times. "Erya Shidi": "Liang Mo is bigger than Jian Liang," Guo Pu notes: "Jian is the name of water; Liang is the embankment." Jian Liang Village is similar to Yoknapatawpha in William Faulkner's novel, and is a fictional place name created by the author. These novels revolve around the changes of the times in Jianliang Village, with the Sima clan as the protagonists. In a certain sense, they express the changes in China's rural areas from the 1950s to the 1960s to the present.
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