The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature

by Lau, Joseph S. M.

• ISBN13: 9780231138413
• ISBN10: 0231138415
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-02
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literaturehas long been a definitive resource for Chinese literature in translation, offering a complete overview of twentieth-century writing from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and making inroads into the twenty-first century as well. In this new edition Joseph S. M. Lau and Howard Goldblatt have selected fresh works from familiar authors and have augmented the collection with poetry, stories from the colonial period in Taiwan, literature by Tibetan authors, samplings from the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution, stories by post-Mao authors Wang Anyi and Gao Xingjian, literature with a homosexual theme, and examples from the modern "cruel youth" movement. Lau and Goldblatt have also updated their notes and their biographies of featured writers and poets. Now fully up to date, this critical resource more than ever provides readers with a thorough introduction to Chinese society and culture.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxi
Biographical Sketches	p. xxix
Fiction, 1918-1949
Preface to the First Collection of Short Stories, Call to Aims	p. 3
A Madman's Diary	p. 8
Kong Yiji	p. 17
A Posthumous Son	p. 22
Sinking	p. 31
Spring Silkworms	p. 56
An Old and Established Name	p. 74
Xiaoxiao	p. 82
The Night of Midautumn Festival	p. 95
The Steelyard	p. 103
Dog	p. 110
One Evening in the Rainy Season	p. 116
Midautumn Festival	p. 125
When I Was in Xia Village	p. 132
Young Master Gets His Tonic	p. 147
Hands	p. 161
Sealed Off	p. 174
The Doctor's Mother	p. 184
Fiction, 1949-1976
A Visit to His Excellency: A Five-Minute Movie	p. 197
My Kid Brother Kangxiong	p. 204
Winter Nights	p. 210
The Fish	p. 324
An Oxcart for a Dowry	p. 232
Yan'an Seeds	p. 251
Curvaceous Dolls	p. 262
Fiction Since 1976
Wrong Number	p. 277
A Tail	p. 280
Small-Hands Chen	p. 282
Tales of New Cathay	p. 285
Disputatiasis	p. 285
The Upholder of Unity	p. 286
Little Little Little Little Little...	p. 287
Right to the Heart of the Matter	p. 287
The Tunnel	p. 289
A Woman Like Me	p. 303
Tales of Taipei	p. 314
A Lover's Ear	p. 314
Empty Seat	p. 315
Cat	p. 317
Not Seen	p. 318
Electing a Thief	p. 321
Hut on the Mountain	p. 325
The Accident	p. 529
The Leader's Demise	p. 337
A Story	p. 349
Dogshit Food	p. 366
Iron Child	p. 379
Fin de Siecle Splendor	p. 388
Lucky Worries About His Country	p. 403
Redeeming a Painting	p. 417
Octday	p. 429
On the Road at Eighteen	p. 439
Escape	p. 445
Letters from Montmarte	p. 455
Granny	p. 462
Fish!	p. 470
Born at the wrong time	p. 480
Poetry, 1918-1949
Second Farewell to Cambridge	p. 499
Love's Inspiration	p. 500
Chance	p. 501
Dead Water	p. 502
One Sentence	p. 503
Prayer	p. 503
Woman Abandoned	p. 505
Never to Return	p. 506
Sonnet 2	p. 508
Sonnet 4	p. 509
Sonnet 27	p. 509
Rainy Alley	p. 510
Written on a Prison Wall	p. 511
With My Injured Hand	p. 512
A Buddhist Monk	p. 513
A Round Treasure-Box	p. 514
Feverish Night	p. 514
Snow Falls on China's Land	p. 516
The North	p. 518
Prophecy	p. 522
Thinking of a Friend at Year's End	p. 523
Autumn	p. 524
A Glance	p. 525
The Lotus Flower	p. 526
Poetry, 1949-1976
Spring Dancing	p. 529
A Wolf	p. 530
Self	p. 531
Song of Wisdom	p. 532
Kingdom of Solitude	p. 533
Under the Bodhi Tree	p. 534
If There's a War Raging Afar	p. 535
Nostalgia	p. 536
The White Jade Bitter Gourd	p. 536
A Group of Urban Youths Is on Its Way	p. 538
Beyond the Fog	p. 540
City: Saigon, 1967	p. 541
Following the Sound of Rain into the Mountains: No Rain	p. 541
Salt	p. 543
Paris	p. 544
The Colonel	p. 545
Pagoda	p. 546
Grenz-Taverne	p. 547
Clear and Bright: In the Grave	p. 547
Moth	p. 548
Vagabond	p. 549
The River's Fancy	p. 550
The Pursuit	p. 551
The Story of the Stone	p. 553
Debate on Rugged Mountain	p. 555
Song of Gray Hair	p. 557
After the Snow	p. 558
Geometry: River Goddess	p. 559
The Deluded Dream	p. 561
Fire on the Sea Floor	p. 562
Our Will to Settle Here Will Never Fail	p. 563
Poetry Since 1976
Autumn Meditation	p. 567
Earl Grey	p. 569
A Night Prayer	p. 570
When You Are Naked, You Have Everything	p. 571
Six Ways of Eating Watermelons	p. 575
Declaration	p. 576
Resume	p. 577
Another Legend	p. 578
When You Walk Past My Window	p. 579
A Roadside Encounter	p. 580
Assembly Line	p. 580
The Cry of a Generation	p. 581
When We Finally Turn Fifty	p. 583
Surgery Ward	p. 584
The Cat Who Walks Through the Wall	p. 585
To a Nine-Year-Old Girl Killed in the Massacre	p. 586
The Dead in Exile	p. 587
An Ending	p. 589
Curriculum Vitae	p. 590
Madwoman	p. 591
This life cage	p. 594
Containment	p. 595
The Ripest Rankest Juiciest Summer Ever	p. 596
Continuing Our Discussion of Boredom and Ennui	p. 598
L'Empire a la Fin de la Decadence	p. 600
Obdurate	p. 601
Hooves of memories	p. 602
Lobsters	p. 603
Spring 2001, Unreachable Civilization	p. 605
Essays, 1918-1949
Excerpts from Wild Grass	p. 609
Epigraph	p. 609
Autumn Night	p. 610
Hope	p. 611
The Evolution of the Male Sex	p. 613
In Praise of Mutes	p. 616
The Aging of Ghosts	p. 620
Reading on the Toilet	p. 627
My Turn at Quitting Smoking	p. 632
The Monks of Hangzhou	p. 637
Prose Selections	p. 641
Haste	p. 641
Spring	p. 642
The Silhouette of His Back	p. 643
The Moonlit Lotus Pond	p. 645
Bombs in Yishan	p. 649
Sickness	p. 655
Haircuts	p. 659
Essays, 1949-1976
On Time	p. 665
Snow	p. 669
Thus Friends Absent Speak	p. 673
Nineteen Seventy-two	p. 677
Essays Since 1976
Remembering Xiao Shan	p. 685
Living Hell (from her memoirs)	p. 697
A Bizarre Kind of Robbery	p. 704
Salute	p. 707
A Father and Son's Boat for the Black Current	p. 715
Permissions	p. 727
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