The Old Man and other stories Harris’s fine rendering of selections

Harris’s fine rendering of selections from the novel Illustrious Heroes

Classical Letters

including the works of Eileen Chang

and poetry

The Old Man and other stories Harris’s fine rendering of selectionsBy Chen Ruoxi 1986 147 pages ISBN 962 201 384 8 Chen Ruoxi captures the pain of the humble individual crushed by the social and political monolith of modern China more effectively than any other Chinese writer of contemporary fiction. The five stories collected here provide evidence of Chen Ruoxi's ability to probe sensitively into the psychology of love and power. The first four stories, set in the Cultural Revolution, are consummate literary studies