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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Biographical Sketches | |
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| Fiction, 1918-1949 | |
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| Preface to the First Collection of Short Stories, Call to Aims | |
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| A Madman's Diary | |
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| Kong Yiji | |
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| A Posthumous Son | |
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| Sinking | |
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| Spring Silkworms | |
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| An Old and Established Name | |
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| Xiaoxiao | |
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| The Night of Midautumn Festival | |
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| The Steelyard | |
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| Dog | |
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| One Evening in the Rainy Season | |
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| Midautumn Festival | |
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| When I Was in Xia Village | |
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| Young Master Gets His Tonic | |
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| Hands | |
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| Sealed Off | |
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| The Doctor's Mother | |
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| Fiction, 1949-1976 | |
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| A Visit to His Excellency: A Five-Minute Movie | |
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| My Kid Brother Kangxiong | |
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| Winter Nights | |
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| The Fish | |
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| An Oxcart for a Dowry | |
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| Yan'an Seeds | |
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| Curvaceous Dolls | |
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| Fiction Since 1976 | |
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| Wrong Number | |
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| A Tail | |
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| Small-Hands Chen | |
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| Tales of New Cathay | |
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| Disputatiasis | |
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| The Upholder of Unity | |
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| Little Little Little Little Little... | |
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| Right to the Heart of the Matter | |
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| The Tunnel | |
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| A Woman Like Me | |
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| Tales of Taipei | |
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| A Lover's Ear | |
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| Empty Seat | |
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| Cat | |
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| Not Seen | |
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| Electing a Thief | |
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| Hut on the Mountain | |
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| The Accident | |
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| The Leader's Demise | |
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| A Story | |
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| Dogshit Food | |
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| Iron Child | |
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| Fin de Siecle Splendor | |
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| Lucky Worries About His Country | |
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| Redeeming a Painting | |
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| Octday | |
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| On the Road at Eighteen | |
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| Escape | |
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| Letters from Montmarte | |
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| Granny | |
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| Fish! | |
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| Born at the wrong time | |
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| Poetry, 1918-1949 | |
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| Second Farewell to Cambridge | |
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| Love's Inspiration | |
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| Chance | |
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| Dead Water | |
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| One Sentence | |
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| Prayer | |
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| Woman Abandoned | |
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| Never to Return | |
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| Sonnet 2 | |
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| Sonnet 4 | |
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| Sonnet 27 | |
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| Rainy Alley | |
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| Written on a Prison Wall | |
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| With My Injured Hand | |
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| A Buddhist Monk | |
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| A Round Treasure-Box | |
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| Feverish Night | |
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| Snow Falls on China's Land | |
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| The North | |
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| Prophecy | |
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| Thinking of a Friend at Year's End | |
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| Autumn | |
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| A Glance | |
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| The Lotus Flower | |
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| Poetry, 1949-1976 | |
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| Spring Dancing | |
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| A Wolf | |
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| Self | |
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| Song of Wisdom | |
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| Kingdom of Solitude | |
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| Under the Bodhi Tree | |
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| If There's a War Raging Afar | |
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| Nostalgia | |
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| The White Jade Bitter Gourd | |
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| A Group of Urban Youths Is on Its Way | |
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| Beyond the Fog | |
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| City: Saigon, 1967 | |
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| Following the Sound of Rain into the Mountains: No Rain | |
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| Salt | |
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| Paris | |
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| The Colonel | |
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| Pagoda | |
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| Grenz-Taverne | |
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| Clear and Bright: In the Grave | |
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| Moth | |
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| Vagabond | |
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| The River's Fancy | |
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| The Pursuit | |
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| The Story of the Stone | |
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| Debate on Rugged Mountain | |
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| Song of Gray Hair | |
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| After the Snow | |
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| Geometry: River Goddess | |
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| The Deluded Dream | |
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| Fire on the Sea Floor | |
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| Our Will to Settle Here Will Never Fail | |
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| Poetry Since 1976 | |
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| Autumn Meditation | |
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| Earl Grey | |
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| A Night Prayer | |
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| When You Are Naked, You Have Everything | |
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| Six Ways of Eating Watermelons | |
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| Declaration | |
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| Resume | |
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| Another Legend | |
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| When You Walk Past My Window | |
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| A Roadside Encounter | |
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| Assembly Line | |
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| The Cry of a Generation | |
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| When We Finally Turn Fifty | |
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| Surgery Ward | |
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| The Cat Who Walks Through the Wall | |
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| To a Nine-Year-Old Girl Killed in the Massacre | |
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| The Dead in Exile | |
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| An Ending | |
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| Curriculum Vitae | |
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| Madwoman | |
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| This life cage | |
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| Containment | |
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| The Ripest Rankest Juiciest Summer Ever | |
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| Continuing Our Discussion of Boredom and Ennui | |
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| L'Empire a la Fin de la Decadence | |
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| Obdurate | |
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| Hooves of memories | |
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| Lobsters | |
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| Spring 2001, Unreachable Civilization | |
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| Essays, 1918-1949 | |
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| Excerpts from Wild Grass | |
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| Epigraph | |
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| Autumn Night | |
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| Hope | |
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| The Evolution of the Male Sex | |
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| In Praise of Mutes | |
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| The Aging of Ghosts | |
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| Reading on the Toilet | |
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| My Turn at Quitting Smoking | |
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| The Monks of Hangzhou | |
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| Prose Selections | |
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| Haste | |
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| Spring | |
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| The Silhouette of His Back | |
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| The Moonlit Lotus Pond | |
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| Bombs in Yishan | |
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| Sickness | |
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| Haircuts | |
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| Essays, 1949-1976 | |
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| On Time | |
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| Snow | |
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| Thus Friends Absent Speak | |
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| Nineteen Seventy-two | |
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| Essays Since 1976 | |
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| Remembering Xiao Shan | |
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| Living Hell (from her memoirs) | |
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| A Bizarre Kind of Robbery | |
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| Salute | |
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| A Father and Son's Boat for the Black Current | |
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| Permissions | |