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Genre: General / Fiction / Poetry / Drama / Essay / Literary Criticism
Theme: Wounds / Obscure Poetry / Realism / Roots-Nativist / Reportage / Taiwan / Hong Kong / Minorities / Women Writers / Dissent / Avant-garde / Memoirs / Popular / Chinese-American / Same-Sex Lit.


I. GENRE COLLECTIONS

General

Chinese Stories of the Twentieth Century. Ed./tr. Zhihua Fang. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. [stories by Lu Xun, Xu Dishan, Liu Xinwu, Gao Xiaosheng, Tie Ning, and Wang Zengqi]

Contemporary Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Post-Mao Fiction and Poetry. Ed. Michael Duke. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1985.

Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature. Eds. Joseph Lau and Howard Goldblatt. NY: Columbia University Press, 1995

The Fontana Collection of Modern Chinese Writing. Ed. Christine Liao. Melbourne?: Fontana/Collins in association with the Chinese Literature Pub. House of Beijing, 1983 [At middle age / Shen Rong -- Pages from a factory secretary's diary / Jiang Zilong -- The stranger / Zhang Lin -- A spate of visitors / Wang Meng -- The story of a living Buddha / Malqinhu -- Hansuai, the living ghost / Bai Honghu and Yang Zhao -- Two brigade leaders / Ji Xuepei -- In vino veritas / Sun Yuchun -- The moon on the south lake / Liu Fudao -- A poster / Li Huiwen -- Poems / Ai Qing ; Shu Ting ; Huang Yongyu]

Furrows, Peasants, Intellectuals, and the State: Stories and Histories from Modern China. Ed. Helen Siu. Stanford: Stanford Press, 1990.

Literature of the People's Republic of China. Ed. Hsu Kai-yu. Bloomington: IUP, 1980.

Modern Literature from China. Eds. Walter J. Meserve and Ruth L. Meserve. NY: New York UP, 1974. [from Lu Xun to Mao; short fiction, poetry, drama, essays]

Selected Works by Members of China PEN Centre of Shanghai. Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Pub. House, 1991.

Trees on the Mountain: An Anthology of New Chinese Writing. Ed. Stephen Soong and John Minford. HK: Renditions, 1984.


Fiction

Best Chinese Short Stories, 1949-1989. Beijing: Chinese Literature Press, 1989.

China: A Traverler's Literary Companion. Ed. Kirk A. Denton. Berkeley: Whereabouts Press, 2008.

"China Today." Special issue of Nimrod 29, 2 (Spring/Summer 1986).

The Chinese Western: Short Fiction From Today's China. Ed. Zhu Hong. NY: Ballantine, 1988.

Contemporary Chinese Short Stories. Zhao Jingshen, comp. 2 vols. Shanghai: Beixin shuju, 1946. (The cross, by Guo Moruo. Suicide, by Mao Dun. A man must have a son, by Ye Shaojun. The florist, by Yu Pingbo. The first home party, by Bing Xin. Hsiao-hsiao, by Shen Congwen. Pai tzu, by Shen Congwen.--v. 2. A hermit at large, by Lu Xun. Looking back to the past, by Lu Xun. Wistaria and doddar, by Yu Dafu. Slave mother, by Rou Shi. Aboard the S.S. Dairen Maru, by Tian Jun. The conversion, by Xiao Qian).

Contemporary Chinese Short Stories. Eds. Chia-Hua Yuan and Robert Payne. NY: Transatlantic Arts, 1946; or London, New York, N. Carrington, 1946.

Contemporary Chinese Short Stories. Beijing: Panda Books, 1983.

Contemporary Chinese Stories. Tr. Chi-chen Wang. Wesport, CT: Greenwood, 1944; NY: Columbia UP, 1944. [in addition to Zhang Tianyi, Mao Dun, Lao She, Lu Xun, Ye Shengtao, Ba Jin, this volume includes stories by less well know writers like Ling Shuhua, Feng Wenbing, Yang Zhensheng and Lao Xiang]

Contemporary Chinese Fiction: Four Short Stories, introduced and annotated for the student of Chinese. Ed. Neal Robbins ; with assistance from David Kay and contributions from Rose Hsiu-li Yuan and K.C. Wong. New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University,1986.

Le fox-trot de Shanghai et autres novelles chinoises. Trs/eds. Isabelle Rabut and Angel Pino. Paris: Albin Michel, 1996. [stories by Jing pai writer--Fei Ming, Shen Congwen, Lin Huiyin, Ling Shuhua, and Xiao Qian--and Hai pai writers--Mu Shiying, Liu Na'ou, Xu Xu, Shi Zhecun, and Ye Lingfeng]

Fragrant Weeds: Chinese Short Stories Once Labelled as Poisonous Weeds. Ed. W.J.F. Jenner. HK: Joint Publishing, 1983.

Genesis of a Revolution: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Short Stories. Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books, 1979.

I Knew All Along and Other Stories. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1960. [fiction by Ma Feng, Wang Wenshi, Gao Fengge, Shen Yaozhong, Du Pengcheng, Lu Junzhao, Hu Wenjun, Xia Hong, Wang Yuanqian, Ru Zhijuan, Liu Baiyu, Liu Gei, A. Wufulli]

Literatur und Politik in der Volksrepublik China. Ed. Rudolf G. Wagner. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp., l983. [has German commented translations of: Zheng Yi, "Red Acorn"; Ru Zhijuan, "Path through the steppe"; Ye Wenfu, "General, not like this"; Sha Yexin/Li Shoucheng/Yao Mingde, "If I were truly"; Liu Binyan, "Among humans and demons"; Wang Meng: "The loyal heart"]

Living China Ed. Edgar Snow. NY: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1937 [One of the first anthologies of English translations of modern Chinese literature].

Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts. Trs. Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, and Howard Goldblatt. NY: Columbia UP, 2006.

Mao's Harvest: Voices from China's New Generation. Ed. Helen Siu and Zelda Stern. Oxford UP, 1983.

Modern Chinese Stories. Ed. K.M. Panikkar. 1953.

Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949. Ed. C.T. Hsia, et. al. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.

Modern Literature From China. Walter Meserve, ed. New York: NYU Press, 1974.

The Mystified Boat and Other New Stories from China. Eds. Frank Stewart and Herbert J. Batt. Special issue of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing 15, 2 (Winter 2003). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Recent Fiction From China, 1987-89: Selected Stories and Novellas. Long Xu, ed. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.

Roses and Thorns: The Second Blooming of the Hundred Flowers in Chinese Fiction, 1979-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Science Fiction from China. Eds. Patrick Murphy and Wu Dingbo. NY: Praeger, 1989.

The Seed and Other Stories. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1972.

Short Stories: Short Stories from China. Ed. Ming-ting Cze. Moscow: Cooperative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1935.

Sowing the Clouds: A Collection of Chinese Short Stories. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1961.

Spring of Bitter Waters: Short Fiction from Today's China. Ed. Zhu Hong. London: Allison & Busby, 1989

Straw Sandals: Chinese Short Stories 1918-1933. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974.

Stories of China at War. Tr./ed. Chi-chen Wang. NY: Columbia UP, 1947.

Stories of Contemporary China. Eds. Winston Yang and Nathan Mao. NY: Paragon Books, 1979.

Stories from the Thirties. 2 vols. Beijing: FLP, 1982.

Stubborn Weeds: Popular and Controversial Chinese Literature after the Cultural Revolution. Ed. Perry Link. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

Themes in Contemporary Chinese Literature. Ed. Jianing Chen. Beijing: New World Press, 1993, 35-76. [PRC fiction by well-known and lesser writers of the 1980s and early 90s]

The Time is Not Ripe Yet. Ed. Ying Bian. Beijing: FLP, 1991. [includes Wang Meng, Ah cheng, Feng Jicai, Wang Anyi, Zhang Xianliang, etc.]

The Tragedy of Ah Qui, and Other Modern Chinese Stories. Ed. Kyn Y.Y. London: George Routledge and sons, 1930.

The Vintage Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction. Eds. Carolyn Choa and David Su Li-Qun. NY: Vintage Books, 2001. [stories by Cheng Naishan, Wang Anyi, Wang Meng, Mo Shen, etc.]

A Wind Across the Grass: Modern Chinese Writing with Fourteen Stories. Ed. Hugh Anderson. Ascot Vale, Vic.: Red Rooster Press, 1985. (stories by Han Zi, Zong Pu, Wang Xiaoying)

Worlds of Modern Chinese Fiction. Ed. M. Duke. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1991.


Poetry

Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry. Ed. and tr. Michelle Yeh. New Haven: YUP, 1992.

Beijing--New York: Chinese Artists, Chinese Poets. Eds. Stephen Lane and Ginny MacKenzie. NY: Sister City Program of the City of New York and Coyote Press, 1988.

"China." Eds. and trs. George O'Connell and Diana Shi. Atlanta Review xiv, 2 (Spring/Summer 2008). [includes poems by Lan Lan, Lu Xixi, Wang Jiaxin, Sun Wenbo, Hu Xudong, Zang Di, Han Dong, Shu Cai, Yu Jian, Zhai Yongming, Yang Jian, Wang Xiaoni, Duoduo, Xiao Kaiyu, Xi Chuan]

China China: Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan. Eds. Germaine Droogenbroodt and Peter Stinson. Belgium: Point Books, 1986.

Contemporary Chinese Poetry. Ed. Robert Payne. London, Routledge, 1947.

Contemporary Chinese Poets, special issue of The Drunken Boat (Spring/Summer 2006). [poems by Xi Chuan, Zhai Yongming, Chen Dongdong, Yu Jian, Duo Duo, Sun Wenbo, Ouyang Jianghe, Wang Xiaoni, Yin Lichuan, Yang Qian, Li Sen, Li Nan, Han Dong, Wang Jiaxin, "minority" poets from Tibet and elsewhere in China, Bei Dao, Ha Jin, Xue Di, etc.]

Contemporary Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Post-Mao Ficiton and Poetry. Ed. Michael S. Duke. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1984.

Earth-Shaking Songs: Epic of Chinese Revolution. Tr. Xu Yu. HK: Commercial Press, 1981. [poetry by modern Chinese revolutionaries]

Eight Contemporary Chinese Poets. Eds. Naikan Tao and Tony Prince. Sydney: Wild Peony Press, 2006. [poems by Yang Lian, Jiang He, Han Dong, Yu Jian, Zhai Yongming, Zhang Zhen, Xi Chuan, and Hai Zi]

From the Bluest Part of the Harbour: Poems from Hong Kong. Ed. Andrew Parkin. London: Oxford UP, 1996.

From the Shelters: Modern Chinese Poetry, 1930-1950. Ed. Wai-lim Yip. NY: Garland, 1992.

Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry. Eds. Michelle Yeh and Goran Malmqvist. NY: Columbia UP, 2001.

Lyrics from the Shelter: Modern Chinese Poetry, 1930-1950. Tr. Wai-lim Yip. NY: Garland, 1992.

"Menglong Shi." Trs. Gordon T. Osing and De-An Wu Swihart. Special section of Salt Hill 5 (1998).

Mercury Rising: Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan. Eds. Frank Stewart, Arthur Sze, Michelle Yeh, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.

Mists: New Poets from China. Tr. John Minford. Special Issue of Renditions 19/20 (1983): 181-270. [special issue on "misty" poetry]

Modern Chinese Poetry. Trs. Harold Acton and Chen Shih-hsiang. London: Duckworth, 1936.

Modern Chinese Poetry: Twenty Poets from the Republic of China, 1955-65. Ed. and tr. Yip Wai-lim. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1970.

Modern Verse from Taiwan. Tr. Angela Jung Palandri. Berkeley: UCP, 1972.

New Chinese Poetry. Ed. Kwang-chung Yu. Taipei: Heritage Press, 1960.

New Generation: Poems from China Today. Ed. Wang Ping. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1999.

New Tide: Contemporary Chinese Poetry. Ed. and Tr. Chao Tang and Lee Robinson. Toronto: Mangajin Books, 1992.

One Hundred Modern Chinese Poems. Eds/Trs. Bingjun Pang, John Minford, w/Sean Golden. HK: Commercial Press, 1987.

The Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China. Eds. and Trs. Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1972.

Original: Chinese Language Poetry Group. Tr. Jeff Twitchell. Special issue of Parataxis 7 (Spring 1994).

Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry. Ed. Tony Barstone. Hanover, London: Wesleyan UP, 1993.

The People Speak Out: Translations of Poems and Songs of the People of China. Rewi Alley, ed. Beijing: 1954.

Poetry Hong Kong: An English Translation of a Selection of Chinese Poetry. Tr./ed. J.S.M. Leung. Hong Kong: ???, 1991.

Poetry International Web--China. Ed. Simon Patton.

The PoetrySky Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, 2005-2006: A Bilingual Edition. Ed. Yidan Han. Providence, RI: PoetrySky Press, 2007

The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution. Ed. Edward Morin, with intro by Leo Lee. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Roseaux sur le mur: les poetes occidentalistes chinois, 1919-1949. Ed. Michelle Loi. Paris: Gallimard, 1971.

Sailing to Formosa: A Poetic Compnnion to Taiwan. Bilingual Anthology. Eds. Michelle Yeh, N.G.D. Malmqvist, and Xu Huizhi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. [press blurb]

"Selection of Contemporary Chinese Poetry." Ed. Inara Cedrins. Special Chinese poetry issue, The Drunken Boat (Spring/Summer 2007).

Smoking People: Encountering the New Chinese Poetry. Ed. John Rosnewald. Special issue of The Beloit Review 39, 2 (Winter 1988/89).

Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown. Tr. Marlon K. Hom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

“Special China Issue.” Prairie Schooner (Summer 1991). [includes poems by Tang Lan, Liang Xiaobin, Xu Wenying, Liu Yihe, Mang Ke, Shu Ting, Liu Zhanqiu, Yang Liuhong, Zhang Xiaojian, Wang Xiaoni, Bei Dao, Hwang Yunte, and Tian Xiaofei; and a short story by Lu Minzhan]

A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement. Trs. Donald Finkel and Carolyn Kizer. San Francisco: North Point, 1991.

Summer Glory: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Poetry. Tr. Nancy Ing. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1982.

The Tiananmen Poems. Tr. Xiao Lan. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1979.

Trees on the Mountain: An Anthology of New Chinese Writing. Ed. Stephen C. Song and John Minford. HK: Renditions Books, 1984.

Twentieth Century Chinese Poetry: An Anthology. Hsu Kai-yu, ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963.

Women of the Red Plain. Tr. Julia C. LIn. Beijing: Panda Books, 1992. Also: Women of the Red Plain: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Women's Poetry. Tr. Julia C. Lin. NY: Penguin Books, 1992.

"The Zigzag Way: New Writing From China." Special issue of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (Summer 1998).


Drama

China on Stage: An American Actress in the People's Republic. Ed. Lois Wheeler Snow. New York: Random House, 1972. [includes "Shajiabang," "Red Detachment of Women," "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy," and "Red Lantern"]

Chinese Drama after the Cultural Revolution, 1979-1989: An Anthology. Ed. Shiao-ling Yu. Edwin Mellen, 1996.

Five Chinese Communist Plays. Ed. Martin Ebon. New York: The John Day Co., 1975. [includes: "White-haired Girl," "Red Detachment...," "Taking...," "Red Lantern," "Azalea Mountain."]

Modern Drama from China. Ed. Walter Meserve. New York: NYU Press, 1970

Modern Chinese Plays. Tr. Ku Tsung-ni. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1941.

An Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama. Ed. Martha Cheung and Jane Lai. HK: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama. Ed. Xiaomei Chen. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. [plays by Liu Shugang, He Jiping, Yang Limin, Sha Yexin, Zhang Lili, and Zhang Mingyuan]. [MCLC Resource Center review by John Yu Zou]

The Red Pear Garden: Three Dramas of Revolutionary China. Ed. John Mitchell. Boston: David R. Godine, 1973.

Saturday Afternoon at the Mill, and other One-Act Plays. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1957. [plays by Cui Dezhi (Tsui Teh-chih), Hu Qiu (Hu Chiu), Zhao Yuxiang (Chao Yu-xiang), and Lu Yanzhou (Lu Yen-chou)]

Theater and Society: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama. Ed. Yan Haiping. Armonk: East Gate Books, 1998.

Twentieth-Century Chinese Drama: An Anthology. Edward Gunn, ed. Bloomington: IUP, 1983.

The Women's Representative: Three One-Act Plays. Beijing: FLP, 1956.


Essay/Prose

The Chinese Essay [Ku chin san wen Ying i chi]. Tr./ed. and with an introduction by David Pollard. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. [contains both premodern and modern essays] [MCLC Resource Center review, by Charles Laughlin]

Jumping through Hoops: Autobiographical Stories by Modern Chinese Women Writers. Ed. Jing M. Wang. Trs. Jing M. Wang and Shirley Chang. HK: Hong Kong University Press, 2003.

Lyrical Prose of China: Stories, Essay, and Reminiscences. Trs. Cheng Mei. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1997.

20th Century Chinese Essays in Translation. Ed. Martin Woesler. Bochum: Bochum UP, 2000..


Literary Criticism

Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945. Ed. Kirk A, Denton. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.



II. THEMATIC COLLECTIONS

Wounds

The Wounded: New Stories of the Cultural Revolution 1977-78. Hongkong: Joint Publishing, 1979.


Osbcure (Menglong) Poetry

The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

"Menglong Shi." Trs. Gordon T. Osing and De-An Wu Swihart. Special section of Salt Hill 5 (1998).

New Tide: Contemporary Chinese Poetry. Trs. Tang Chao and Lee Robinson. Mangajin Books, 1992.

Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry. Ed. Tony Barnstone. Hanover: UP of New England, 1993. [includes "Obscure" poets and "Post-Obscure" poets]


Realism

The New Realism: Writings from China after the Cultural Revolution. NY: Hippocrene Books, 1983.


Roots-Nativist

Oxcart. Nativist Stories from Taiwan 1934-1977. Tr./with an Introduction by Rosemary M. Haddon. Dortmund 1996,

Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories. Ed Jeanne Tai. NY: Random House, 1989.


Reportage

Liu Binyan. People or Monsters and Other Stories and Reportage from China After Mao. Bloomington: IUP, 1983.

Dai Qing. Wang Shiwei and "Wild Lilies": Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party. M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

-----. The River Dragon Has Come: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

Ici la vie respire aussi et autres texts de litterature de reportage (1926-1982). Ed./tr. Noel Dutrait. Aix-en-Provence: Alinea, 1986. [includes essays by Zhu Ziqing, Xia Yan, Song Zhidi, Cao Bai, Huang Gang, Wei Wei, Xu Chi, and Liu Binyan]


Taiwan Literature

An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature: Taiwan, 1949-1974. 2 vols, I: Poems and Essays; II: Short Stories. Eds. Ch'i Pang-yuan, John Deeney, Ho Hsin, Wu Hsi chen, Yu Kwang chung. Taipei: National Institute for Comparative Literature and Translation, 1975.

Bamboo Shoots After Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan. Ed. Ann Carter and Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang. NY: The Feminist Press, 1990.

China China: Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan, Republic of China. Eds. Germain Droogenbroodt and Peter Stinson. Ninove, Belgium Point Books, 1986. [includes Ji Xian, Luo Fu, Yang Huan, Yu Guangzhong, Fang Qi, Lin Huanzhang, Bai Qiu, Luo Qing, Xiang Ming and Zhang Mo]

Chinese Stories from Taiwan 1960-1970. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.

City Women: Contemporary Taiwan Women Writers. Ed. Eva Hung. Hong Kong. Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2001. ["Selling House and Home," by Huang Ying; "Fin de Siècle Splendour," by Zhu Tianwen; "Nineteen Days of the New Party," by Zhu Tianxin; "The Colours of Love," by Xiao Sa; "Fever," by Yuan Qiongqiong]

A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories. Taibei: Dawning Cultural Service Center, 1971. [Stories by Zhu Huan-wen, Zhu Xining, He Xiaozhong, Wu Dongquan, Jiang Mu, Zhang Fang, Ji Deng, Dian Yuan]

Death in a Cornfield and Other Stories from Contemporary Taiwan. Ed. Ching-hsi Perng and Chiu-kuei Wang. HK: Oxford UP, 1994.

Exiles and Native Sons: Modern Chinese Stories from Taiwan. Eds. Michelle Yeh and Dominic Cheung. Taipei: National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 1992.

Folk Stories from Taiwan. Eds. Kuo-ch'ing Tu and Robert Backus. Taiwan Literature: Chinese-English Bilingual Series. Santa Barbara: Center for Taiwan Studies, University of California, 2005.

Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry. Eds. Michelle Yeh and Goran Malmqvist. NY: Columbia UP, 2001.

The Isle Full of Noises: Modern Poetry from Taiwan. Tr. Domonic Cheung. NY: Columbia UP, 1987.

The Last of the Whampoa Breed: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora. Eds. Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

[Abstract: Whampoa Military Academy was China´s first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil war that resulted in the "great divide" of China in the mid-twentieth century. In 1949 the Communists exiled a million soldiers and their families to compounds in Taiwan and cut off communication with mainland China for forty years. The Last of the Whampoa Breed tells the stories of the exiles written by their descendants, many of whom have become Taiwan´s most important authors. The book is an important addition to the vastly underrepresented literature of Taiwan in translation and sheds light on the complex relationship between Taiwan and the People´s Republic of China. Western readers will not at first recognize the experiences of these soldiers who were severed from a traditional past only to face unfulfilled promises and uncertain futures. Many of the exiles were doomed to live and die homeless and loveless. Yet these life stories reveal a magnanimous, natural dignity that has transcended prolonged mental suffering. "I Wanted to Go to War" describes the sadly ineffectual, even comic attempts to "recapture the mainland." The old soldier in "Tale of Two Strangers" asks to have his ashes scattered over both the land of his dreams and the island that has sheltered him for forty years. Some of the stories recount efforts to make peace with life in Taiwan, as in "Valley of Hesitation," and the second generation´s struggles to find a place in the native island society as in "The Vanishing Ball" and "In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound." Narrating the homeland remembered and the homeland in reality, the stories in this book affirm that "we shall not let history be burned to mere ashes."]

Mercury Rising: Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan. Eds. Frank Stewart, Arthur Sze, Michelle Yeh, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.

Modern Chinese Poetry: Twenty Poets from the Republic of China, 1955-65. Ed. and tr. Yip Wai-lim. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1970.

Modern Verse from Taiwan. Ed. Angela Palandri. Berkeley: UCP, 1972.

New Chinese Stories: Twelve Short Stories by Contemporary Chinese Writers. Wu Lu-chëin comp. Taipei: Heritage Press, 1961.

New Chinese Writing [from Taiwan]. Ed. Lucian Wu. Taipei: Heritage Press, 1962.

New Voices: Stories and Poems by Young Chinese Writers. Tr./ed. Nancy Ing. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1980.

Oxcart: Nativist Stories from Taiwan, 1934-1977. Tr. Rosemary Haddon. Dortmund: Projekt Verlag, 1996.

Sailing to Formosa: A Poetic Compnnion to Taiwan. Bilingual Anthology. Eds. Michelle Yeh, N.G.D. Malmqvist, and Xu Huizhi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. [press blurb]

Summer Glory: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Poetry. Tr. Nancy Ing. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1982.

The Unbroken Chain: An Anthology of Taiwan Fiction Since 1926. Bloomington: IUP, 1983.

Winter Plum: Contemporary Chinese Fiction. Ed. Nancy Ing. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1982.


Hong Kong

From the Bluest Part of the Harbour: Poems from Hong Kong. Ed. Andrew Parkin. London: Oxford UP, 1996.

Hong Kong Collage: Contemporary Stories and Writing. Ed. Martha Cheung. HK: Oxford UP, 1998.

To Pierce the Material Screen: An Anthology of 20th-Century Hong Kong Literature. Ed. Eva Hung. 2 vols. HK: Renditions, 2008.


Minority/Aboriginal Writers

An den Lederriemen geknotete Seele. Erzähler aus Tibet. Tr/ed. by Alice Grünfelder. Zürich: Unionsverlag, 1997.
[stories by Tashi Dawa, Alai, and Sebo]

Indigenous Writers of Taiwan: An Anthology of Stories, Essays, and Poems. Ed/tr. by John Balcom and Yingtsih Balcom. NY: Columbia UP, 2005. [CUP abstract]

"Never has there been a collection of works by Taiwan's indigenous writers in English translation.

Love That Burns on a Summer Night. Beijing: Panda, 1990. [includes Malqinhu, Cai Cehai, Wure'ertu, Odsor, Jia Jun, Tah Dawa, Lim Yunchun, Hai Tao, Zhao Danian, Zhang Chengzhi]

Song of the Snow Lion: New Writings from Tibet. Ed. Tsering Wangdu Shakya. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

Tales from Within the Clouds: Nakhi Stories of China. Retold by Carolyn Han. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.

Tales of Tibet: Sky Burials, Prayer Wheels, and Wind Horses. Ed/tr. Herbert Batt. Rowman and Littlefied, 2001. [stories by both Tibetan and Chinese writers]


Women Writers

Born of the Same Roots: Stories of Modern Chinese Women. Vivian Hsu, ed. Bloomington: IUP, 1981.

Contemporary Women Writers, Hongkong and Taiwan. ed. Eva Hung. HK: Renditions Paperbacks, 1990. [Xi Xi; Peng Cao; Li Ang; Yuan Qiongqiong; Su Weizhen; Li Li; Xin Qishi]

Contemporary Chinese Women Writers. Vol II. Beijing: Panda, 1991.

Contemporary Chinese Women Writers. Vol III. Beijing: Panda, 1993.

Contemporary Women Writers: Hongkong and Taiwan. Ed. Eva Hung. HK: Chinese University of HK Press, 1990.

Chinese Women Writers: A Collection of Short Stories by Chinese Women Writers of the 1920s and 30s. HK: Joint Publishing, 1985. [includes stories by Bing Xin, Ding Ling, Ling Shuhua, Luo Shu, Wu Shutian, Lu Yin, Xiao Hong, Feng Keng, Chen Ying, Feng Yuanjun]

City Women: Contemporary Taiwan Women Writers. Ed. Eva Hung. Hong Kong. Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2001. ["Selling House and Home," by Huang Ying; "Fin de Siècle Splendour," by Zhu Tianwen; "Nineteen Days of the New Party," by Zhu Tianxin; "The Colours of Love," by Xiao Sa; "Fever," by Yuan Qiongqiong]

Dragonflies: Fiction by Chinese Women in the Twentieth Century. Eds. Shu-ning Sciban and Fred Edwards. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 2003. [stories by Ling Shuhua, Bing Xin, Zhang Ailing, Wei Junyi, Kang Yunwei, Ping Lu, Liao Huiying, Chi Li, Jiang Zidan, Wang Anyi, and Xi Xi]

I Wish I Were a Wolf: The New Voice in Chinese Women's Literature. Tr. Diana Kingsbury. Beijing: New World Press.

May Fourth Women Writers: Memoirs. Eds. Janet Ng and Janice Wickeric. HK: Renditions, 1997.

One Half the Sky: Stories of Contemporary Women Writers of China. Eds. R.A. Roberts and A. Knox. London: Heinneman, 1987.

Red Is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories. Ed. Patricia Sieber. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. [stories by Chen Ran, Chen Xue, He An, Hong Ling, Liang Hanyi, Wang Anyi, Wong Bikwan, Zhang Mei]

The Rose-Colored Dinner: New Works By Contemporary Chinese Women Writers. Edward Morin, ed. U. of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers. Beijing: Panda Books, 1982.

The Serenity of Whiteness: Stories By and About Women in Contemporary China. Zhu Hong, tr. Available Press, 1992.

Six Contemporary Chinese Women Writers. Beijing: Panda Books, 1995.

Women of the Red Plain: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Women's Poetry. Tr. Julia C. Lin. London: Penguin, 1992.

Writing Women in Modern China: An Anthology of Literature by Chinese Women of the Early Twentieth Century. Tr. Amy Dooling and K. Torgeson. NY: Columbia UP, 1997. [contains works of all genres by Qiu Jin, Chen Xengzhe, Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin, Lin Huiyin, Bing Xin, Xiao Hong, etc.]


Dissent Literature

Fragrant Weeds: Chinese Short Stories Once Labelled as Poisonous Weeds. Ed. W.J.F. Jenner. HK: Joint Publishing, 1983.

Literature of the Hundred Flowers. Ed. and co-trs. Nie Hualing. 2 vols. NY: Columbia UP, 1981.

Proscribed Chinese Writing. Robert Tung, ed. London: Curzon Press, 1976.

A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement. Trs. Donald Finkel and Carolyn Kizer. San Francisco: North Point, 1991.

The Tiananmen Poems. Ed. and Trs. Xiao Lan. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1979.

Wild Lilies, Poisonous Weeds: Dissident Voices from People's China. Gregor Benton, ed. London: Pluto Press, 1982.


Avant-garde

Abandoned Wine (Chinese Writing Today, No. 2). London: Wellsweep, 1997.

China's Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology. Ed. Jing Wang. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.

Fissures: Chinese Writing Today. Eds. Henry YH Zhao, Yanbing Chen, and John Rosenwald. Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press, 2001.

The Lost Boat: Avant-garde Fiction from China. Ed. Henry Zhao. London: Wellsweep, 1993.

The Mystified Boat and Other New Stories from China. Eds. Frank Stewart and Herbert J. Batt. Special issue of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing 15, 2 (Winter 2003). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

The New Chinese Avant-Garde Poetry, 1982-1992. Ed. Wang Ping. Forthcoming.

Out of the Howling Storm. Ed. Tony Barnstone. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993.

Running Wild: New Chinese Writers. Ed. David Der-Wei Wang and Jeanne Tai. NY: Columbia, 1993.

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused. Ed. Howard Goldblatt. NY: Grove Press, 1995.

Under-Sky Underground. Ed. Henry Zhao. London: Wellsweep, 1994.


Memoirs (only a few of a growing genre)

Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. NY: Anchor Books, 1991.

Chang, Leslie. Beyond the Narrow Gate: The Journey of Four Chinese Women from the Middle Kingdom to Middle America. NY: Dutton, 1999.

Chen, Chen. Come Watch the Sun Go Home: A Memoir of Upheavel and Revolution in China. NY: Marlowe and Co., 1998.

Chen, Xuezhao. Surviving the Storm: A Memoir. Ed. Jeffrey Kinkley, tr. Ti Hua. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1990.

Cheng, Nien. Life and Death in Shanghai. NY: Penguin Books, 1988.

Chiang, Shiang-hua. A Chinese Woman in Iowa. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 1992.

Gao, Yuan. Born Red: a Chronicle of the Cultural revolution. Stanford: SUP 1987.

Guo, Sheng. Tears of the Moon. Auckland: Penguin, 2003.

He Dong. Ask the Sun. Tr. from Norwegian by Katherine Hanson. Seattle: Women in Translation, 1997.

Jiang, Jili. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution. NY: Harper Collins, 1997.

Jiang, Yarong and David Ashley, eds. Mao's Children in the New China: Voices from the Red Guard Generation. NY: Routledge, 2000.

Lai, Ying. The Thirty-sixth Way: A Personal Account of Imprisonment and Escape from Red China. London: Constable, 1970.

Li, Yan. Daughters of the Red Land. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1995.

Ling, Ken. The Revenge of Heaven: Journal of a Young Chinese. NY: Ballantine Books, 1972.

Lo, Fulang. Morning Breeze: A True Story of China's Cultural Revolution. SF: China Books, 1989.

Mah, Adeline Yen. Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter. New York: Wiley, 1997.

Min, Anchee. Red Azalea. New York: Pantheon, 1994. [Chinese lesbian's experience coming of age during the CR and her relationship with a woman while she is working on a collective farm]

Ming, Sung and Min Tsu. Never Alone: A Story of Survival under the Gang of Four. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 1983.

Mu, Aiping. Vermilion Gate. London: Little, Brown, 2000.

Niu-niu. No Tears for Mao: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution. Tr. Enne and Peter Amman. Chicago: Chicago Academy Publisher, 2001.

Peng, Jialin. Wild Cat: Stories of the Cultural Revolution. Dunvegan, Ont.: Cormorant Books, 1990.

Pu, Ning. Red Tooth in Claw: Twenty Six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons. NY: Grove, 1994.

Su, Xiaokang. A Memoir of Misfortune. Tr. Zhu Hong. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

Sun-Childers, Jaia. The White-Haired Girl: Bittersweet Adventures of a Little Red Soldier. NY: Picador, 1996.

Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Denny Chu, et. al. trs. Pantheon / FLP, 1991.

Wang, Annie. Lili: A Novel of Tiananmen. NY: Pantheon, 2001.

Wang, Ping. Foreign Devil. Coffee House Press, 1996.

Wen, Chihua. The Red Mirror: Children of China’s Cultural Revolution. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.

Xiao, Li Cao. The Autumn Winds of My Youth. Vancouver: Xiao, 1984.

Xin, Fengxia. The Memoirs of Xin Fengxia. Ed./tr. John Chinnery. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Xinran. The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices. Tr. Esther Tyldesley. NY: Pantheon, 2002.

Xu, Meihong and Larry Engelmann. Daughter of China: A True Story of Love and Betrayal. NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1999.

Yang, Chiang. A Cadre School Life: Six Chapters. Tr. Geremie Barmre. HK: Joint Publishing Co., 1982; New York: Readers International, 1984. Also as Six Chapters of Life in a Cadre School: Memoirs from China's Cultural Revolution. Tr. Chang Chu. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986. Also Six Chapters From My Life "Downunder". Tr. Howard Goldblatt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983: HK: Chinese University Press, 1984.

-----. Lost in the Crowd: A Cultural Revolution Memoir. Tr. Geremie Barme. Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1989.

Yang, Rae. Spider Eaters. Berkeley: UC Press, 1997.

Ye, Ting-Xing. A Leaf in the Bitter Wind. Toronto and NY: Doubleday, 1997.

Zhai, Zhenhua. Red Flower of China. NY: SOHO; Toronto: Lester Publishing, 1992.

Zhang, Zhimei. Foxspirit: A Woman In Mao's China. Montreal: Vehicule Press; Don Mills, Ont.: Distributed by General Distribution Services, 1992.

Zhong, Xueping, Di Bai, and Zheng Wang, eds. Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2001.

Zhu, Xiaodi. Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China. Amherst: University of Mass. Press, 1998.

For more memoirs and other literary works that deal with the Cultural Revolution, see Cultural Revolution in Literature: A Selected Bibliography


Popular Fiction

Chinese Middlebrow Fiction: From the Ch'ing and Early Republican Eras. Ed. Liu Ts'un-yan. HK: Renditions.

Stories for Saturday: Twentieth Century Chinese Popular Fiction. Tr. Timothy C. Wong. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. [MCLC Resource Center Publications review by John Christopher Hamm]


Chinese American Literature

Wong, Norman. Cultural Revolution: Stories. New York: Persea, 1994. [about gay Chinese-American youth in Hawaii]

Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry. NY: Pergamon Press, 1990


Same-Sex Literature

Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan. Ed. Fran Martin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. [with stories by Zhu Tianwen, Zhu Tianxin, Qiu Miaojin, Hsu Yoshen, Lin Yuyi, Lin Chunying, Chen Xue, Hong Ling, Chi Tawei, and Wu Jiwen].

Red Is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories. Ed. Patricia Sieber. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. [stories by Chen Ran, Chen Xue, He An, Hong Ling, Liang Hanyi, Wang Anyi, Wong Bikwan, Zhang Mei]