The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature

Contents

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Acknowledgments

PART ONE: 1911 – 1949

Introduction to the Republican Era

Preface to Call to Arms

A Madman’s Diary

The Butterflies

Dream and Poetry

To the Tune of Shengzhazi

The Streets of Heaven

The Nirvana of the Feng and Huang: Prelude

How Can I Not Miss Her

A Maze of Stars (selections)

Spring Water (selections)

The Abandoned Woman

The Expression of Time

Malady of Spring Nights

For the Love of Her Feet

The Moonlit Lotus Pond

Second Farewell to Cambridge

Perhaps (A Dirge)

Miss Sophia’s Diary (excerpt)

Rainbow (excerpt)

Family (excerpts)

Border Town (excerpts)

Reading in the Lavatory

My Country and My People (excerpt)

Rickshaw (excerpts)

Dream of the Old Town

Tales of Hulan River (excerpt)

PART TWO: 1949 – 1976

Introduction to the Revolutionary Era

Quotations from Chairman Mao (excerpts)

Dayanhe—My Wet Nurse

On a Chilean Cigarette Package

The Young Man Who Has Just Arrived at the Organization
Department (excerpts)

The Unglovable Hands

The Red Lantern: A Revolutionary Peking Opera in Eleven Acts (excerpt)

PART THREE: 1976 – Present

Introduction to the Post-Mao Era

Notes from the City of the Sun

The Red Sailboat

City Gate Open Up (excerpt)

Nameless Flowers

Farewell, Cemetery

I’m a Willful Child

Red Sorghum (excerpts)

A Roadside Encounter

Where the Soul Dwells

In Search of the King of Singers (excerpts)

The Book of Exile

Masks and Crocodile (selections)

Hut on the Mountain

Love in a Small Town (excerpt)

The Language of the ’50s

Facing the Ocean, Spring Warms Flowers Open

Spring, Ten Hai Zis

Thirteen Ways to Fold a Paper Hawk

The Night in the End

Sign: Inspired by a Letter

A Chinese Character Comic Strip

An Antique Style Door Screen

Night Comes to Calabash Street

On the Road at Eighteen

Raise the Red Lantern (excerpt)

A Starry Moment

Into the Mirror

On the Other Side of the River

If I Have to Die

The Dead Are Mourning the Living

Self-Introduction

Soul Mountain (excerpts)

Nothing to My Name