Yesterday's Border Town: Mabian from 1589 to 1950
by Gong Jingran
About This Novel
Mabian is located in Xiaoliangshan District on the southwest edge of the Sichuan Basin, at the junction of Leshan City, Yibin City and Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. Before the Qing Dynasty, there were two core areas in the southwest frontier, one was the Sichuan-Tibet area represented by the Jinchuan River and the Big River, and the other was the Xiaoliangshan area represented by Mabian. Mabian has historically been a mixed area of Yi and Han people, but in modern times it has experienced the process of transforming from a frontier to an inland area. This book intercepts several major events in Mabian over more than 400 years and details the people who have been forgotten in the era. In a slow and measured writing style, it writes from the founding of Mabian in the 17th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty to the eve of the start of the socialist experiment in 1950. All aspects of Mabian's political economy, cultural customs, and social life are interspersed among them, and a three-dimensional picture of the centuries-old history of a small frontier town is vividly unfolded in front of readers.
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