Under Shanghai Eaves

…courtesan, and Shanghai wuyanxia (1937; Under Shanghai Eaves), a naturalistic depiction of tenement life that became a standard leftist work. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Xia worked as a journalist while continuing his creative writing. He published Faxisi-xijun (“The Fascist Bacillus”) in 1942 and Tianya-fangcao (“Fragrant Flowers on…