Wu Fei & Fu Mengru 
Master Guidance on The Frontier City [EPUB ebook] 

Based on Shen Congwen’s famous novel The Frontier City, this book captures the personality of the central character, Cui Cui, who is pure and natural, to present the characters, environment, and artistic style of Chadong horizontally in three sections, totaling 12 chapters. Chapters 1-6 are centered on characterization, with each chapter analyzing a character, one by one among six characters such as Grandpa, Cui Cui, Nuo Song, Tian Bao, Shun Shun, Yang Mabing, with portraits, language and behaviors, living out their different personalities and outlining the context of Cui Cui’s storyline. Chapters 8-10 focus on the typical environment of Chadong, revealing the deeper reasons for the simplicity and naturalness of Cui Cui and other characters from three levels: architecture, festivals, and folk customs. Chapters 11-12 cut into the artistic style of The Frontier City, interpreting the character shaping of Cui Cui from 3 perspectives: narrative structure, linguistic context, and linguistic style, to deepen understanding. The layer-by-layer in-depth course design and strong immersion are a concrete and convenient grip to help readers understand the original text. Based on the current pain points and difficulties of students’ understanding, the comparative method is used on typical plots, making typical characters in typical settings stand vividly revealed on the paper. It is suitable for quick reading and grasping the character, plot, and soul of the original work, and understanding Shen Congwen’s character-building techniques, structural style, and artistic style, so that they can be used in a practical way – to generalize, to transfer, and to address both symptoms and root causes.