Shi Zhecun – One Evening in the Rainy Season

This week, we take a look at on of the great writers from Shanghai’s 1930’s modernist moment. Shi Zhecun is one of the New Sensationalist (新感觉派), and his story, “One Evening in the Rainy Season” follows the story of a man who is following a woman one rainy Shanghai night. Is he a creeper? Is he just a normal person in this metropolis? We stay inside the character’s head, but we never really get a grasp on what is going on.