This volume features two of the most acclaimed stories by Mao Dun. Whereas "The Shop of the Lin Family" records the bankruptcy of traditional commercial system as a result of foreign economic invasion, "Spring Silkworms" focuses on the breakdown of traditional agricultural structure when challenged by a modern mode of production. Put together, the two stories constitute a compelling expose of China on the eve of revolution while projecting Mao Dun's own ideological agenda. 本書介紹茅盾最負盛名的兩篇作品。《林家鋪子》披露傳統商業制度如何在外國經濟侵略下破產，《春蠶》則寫出傳統農業結構如何因為現代生產模式的挑戰而解體。合而觀之，兩篇作品對中國在大革命到來之前的境況，作了動人的告白；兩作也投射了茅盾個人的意識形態立場。