The Old Man of the Moon: Shen Fu

A moving nineteenth-century account - lost for many decades - of a Chinese official`s all-consuming love for his wife.

`Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?`

The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu`s intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteenth-century China.
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