Published within a few months of each other in 1906, Stones in the Sea by Fu Lin and The Sea of Regret by Wu Jianren take opposite sides in the heated Turn-Of-The-Century debate over the place of Romantic and sexual love and passion in Chinese life.
Taken together, this pair of Novels provides a fascinating portrait of early twentieth.
The Sea of Regret, which came to be the most popular short novel of this period, is a response to the less well-known but equally significant Stones in the Sea.
Published within a few months of each other in 1906, Stones in the Sea by Fu Lin and The Sea of Regret by Wu Jianren take opposite sides in the heated Turn-Of-The-Century debate over the place of Romantic and sexual love and passion in Chinese life