he China Stories series is a collection of short stories and novellas that are meant for a pleasant reading experience, an experience that is made all the more delightful by our elaborately produced bilingual texts and beautiful illustrations. Whether the story-teller or the listener comes from China or elsewhere, we believe that you can derive your own impression of China from these stories, and feel closer to it whether it was familiar or strange to you before you lay your hands on the China Stories series.
This novel is mainly about the fresh and indistinct love between the small monk Minghai and the little girl Yingzi, to show with rich poetic flavour the rural lanscape of Lixia River in Su Bei in 1930s. The novel is full of intrinsic joy, praising the simple and healthy human nature.
