← Xiao HongTales of Hulan Riverby Xiao HongLyrical vignettes of ordinary life along a rural Chinese river townFind on Amazon↗About the authorXiao HongLyrical Chinese novelist who died at thirty in Hong Kong, leaving a body of work remarkable for its unsentimental honesty about poverty, gender, and colonial disruption. The Field of Life and Death and Tales of Hulan River are her major works.More by Xiao HongThe Field of Life and DeathPortrayal of peasant resistance and survival during Japanese occupation of Manchuria→Market Street→Ma Bole→Ma Bo Le→