Stories from Contemporary China: Zhou Yu’s Train by Bei Cun, The Sprinkler by Xu Yigua, The Crime Scene by Li Er

The three brilliant novellas found in this book were written in the last ten years of the 20th century. The authors are stars of the contemporary literary scene, representing a new generation of writers in China. These stories narrate the dichotomy of places and groups at a time when China was going through profound change.