Chinese Walls/Daughters of Hui

by Xi, Xu

• ISBN13: 9789628631919
• ISBN10: 9628631918
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-15
• Publisher: Chameleon Press

Summary

Xu Xi is one of Asia's most important contemporary literary voices in English. This new volume, with a preface by Dr. Michael Ingham of Lingnan University, brings her early works back into print for North American readers. Chinese Walls reveals to readers the invisible walls between the members of a Chinese Indonesian family in 1960s Hong Kong. This raw and controversial first novel was praised by the Far Eastern Economic Review, who welcomed its author as "a welcome new voice into the field of Asian fiction writers" Daughters of Hui includes a novella and three stories of contemporary Asian women, all surnamed Hui, who share a connection to New England and Hong Kong. Named a 1996 Asiaweek "best book, " this superb collection will engage readers worldwide. Xu Xi's uncompromising vision of modern Asian life is a necessary departure from the exotic and "Oriental" of much Western fiction. In the words of one reviewer, "the punch line is devastating."

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Dr. Michael Anthony Ingham
Rationale for the Present Edition	ii
Every Wall That Ever Was...	vi
Confucius and Other Tyrants	x
Chinese Walls Novel	1	(138)
Chung King Mansion	3	(21)
My Father's Story	24	(14)
Philip and Me	38	(17)
About Vince	55	(26)
Paul Is My Mother's Son	81	(14)
Loving Jade	95	(23)
Repeated Practice	118	(21)
Daughters of Hui Fiction Collection	139	(116)
Danny's Snake novella	141	(68)
Loving Graham short story	209	(19)
The Stone Window a story in four parts
The Benefactor	228	(6)
A Gambler in Athens and a Girl from Hong Kong	234	(7)
An Aegean Box	241	(6)
Philomena	247	(8)
Valediction short story	255