EDITIONS

 

The translations in this volume either are based on or have been revised to match the editions published in Fujian renmin chubanshe’s Compendium of Shanghai Literature from the War Period in 1983. Annotations in the endnotes call attention to differences between the 1983 editions and (1) the 1939 “Cold Room Jottings” editions of four Margins essays; (2) the 1941 Kaiming shuju edition of Margins; (3) the 1946 Kaiming shuju edition of Human; and (4) the 2001 Sanlian editions of both works. The generic numbered titles of the four “Cold Room Jottings” essays were changed when they were republished in the 1941 Kaiming edition.

 

WRITTEN IN THE MARGINS OF LIFE

1939. “Lengwu suibi zhi yi” (Cold Room Jottings No. 1). [“Lun wenren” .] Jinri pinglun (Criticism Today) (Kunming) 1, no. 3 (January 15).

1939. “Lengwu suibi zhi er” (Cold Room Jottings No. 2). [“Shi wenmang” .] Jinri pinglun 1, no. 6 (February 5).

1939. “Lengwu suibi zhi san” (Cold Room Jottings No. 3). [“Yige pianjian” .] Jinri pinglun 1, no. 14 (April 2).

1939. “Lengwu suibi zhi si” (Cold Room Jottings No. 4). [“Shuo xiao” .] Jinri pinglun 1, no. 22 (May 24).

1941. Xie zai rensheng bianshang (Written in the Margins of Life). Kaiming wenxue xinkan (Kaiming New Literature Series). Shanghai: Kaiming shudian. Reprinted in 1946, 1947, 1948.

1950. Xie zai rensheng bianshang. Hong Kong: Yixin shudian / Wenchang shuju. Reprinted in 1973.

1982. Xie zai rensheng bianshang. Zhongguo xiandai wenxue congshu (Modern Chinese Literature Compendium). Hong Kong: Wenjiao chubanshe.

1983. Xie zai rensheng bianshang. Shanghai kangzhan shiqi wenxue congshu, di er ji (Compendium of Shanghai Literature from the War Period, no. 2). Fuzhou: Fujian renmin chubanshe. Reprinted in the same compendium in a joint volume with Ren, shou, gui , Fuzhou: Haixia wenyi chubanshe, 1991.

1990. Xie zai rensheng bianshang. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe.

1990. Xie zai rensheng bianshang. Vol. 4 of Qian Zhongshu zuopinji (Collected Works of Qian Zhongshu). Taipei: Shulin chuban youxian gongsi.

2000. Xie zai rensheng bianshang. Shenyang: Liaoning renmin chubanshe / Liaohai chubanshe.

2001. Xie zai rensheng bianshang, Rensheng bianshang de bianshang, Shi yu (Written in the Margins of Life; In the Margins of the Margins of Life; Stone’s Words). Vol. 6 of Qian Zhongshu ji (The Qian Zhongshu Collection). Beijing: Sanlian shudian. Simplified character edition published in 2002 and reprinted in 2003, 2007.

 

HUMAN, BEAST, GHOST

1946. Ren, shou, gui (Human, Beast, Ghost). Shanghai: Kaiming shudian. Reprinted in 1947.

1971. Ren, shou, gui. Hong Kong: Wanyou tushu gongsi.

1982. Ren, shou, gui. Zhongguo xiandai wenxue congshu. Hong Kong: Wenjiao chubanshe.

1983. Ren, shou, gui. Shanghai kangzhan shiqi wenxue congshu. Fuzhou: Fujian renmin chubanshe.

1987. Ren, shou, gui. Xinzhuang, Taiwan: Fuxin shuju.

1999. Ren, shou, gui. Beijing: Zhongguo huaqiao. Based on the 1983 edition.

2001. Ren, shou, gui. Vol. 5 of Qian Zhongshu ji. Beijing: Sanlian shudian. Simplified character edition published in 2002 and reprinted in 2003, 2007.

 

JOINT EDITIONS

1987. Ren, shou, gui; fu: Xie zai rensheng bianshang (Human, Beast, Ghost; Addendum: Written in the Margins of Life). Xindian, Taiwan: Gufeng chubanshe.

1989. Xie zai rensheng bianshang. Vol. 3 of Qian Zhongshu zuopinji. Taipei: Shulin chuban gongsi. Includes Human.

1991. Ren, shou, gui; Xie zai rensheng bianshang. Shanghai kangzhan shiqi wenxue congshu. Fuzhou: Haixia wenyi chubanshe.

1994. Xie zai rensheng bianshang; Ren, shou, gui. Hong Kong: Tiandi tushu youxian gongsi. Reprinted in 1997.

1997. Qian Zhongshu zuopinji. Shenyang: Chunfeng wenyi chubanshe. Contains Margins, Human, and Qi zhui ji (Seven Patches).

1998. Qian Zhongshu zuopinji. Lanzhou: Gansu renmin chubanshe. Contains Weicheng (Fortress Besieged), Human, Margins, Guan zhui bian (The Tube and Awl Collection), and Qi zhui ji.