Panda Books: How Mr. Pan Weathered the Storm

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Intensely evocative of the spirit of place, 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 social conditions 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 the time.Ye Shengtao, an influential writer, educator and publisher, was born in 1894 in Suzhou. His fiction, children's tales, essays and verse are all noted for their meticulous attention to style.