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Touch Paper
Ah Ji found that the people around the town did not treat him with the proper respect.
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The Last Sacrifice
In this piece from Soul Mountain, Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian tells of the final ceremony of a dying Miao Master of Sacrifice.
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My Secret Affair
From her figure, I cold tell she was an extremely ordinary-looking girl, but due to my unendurable boredom, I was dying for any excitement.
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Dumb Boy Ah Tong
Ah Tong, called by his family name, had a stubborn character well known in town, where everyone called him Stubborn Dumb Boy.
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A Tale from the Snowfield
-By Ma Duangang It was a week ago that I invited Fatty Ren, a southerner, to dinner in the Wailou Hotel. I had long heard that he had become rich by raking in almost half a million yuan from reselling fur.
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Eating Wolf
From Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong Old Liu floored the gas pedal, and the vehicle shot out, from time to time leaving the ground altogether or careening on two wheels.
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A Beating for a Wife
From A Tale of Big Nur by Wang Zengqi The older apprentices knew about the affair but kept it secret from the old tinsmith. They left the door unlatched for Eleventh Boy and oiled its hinges to muffle the squeaks.
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Village Girl, City Divorce
From He Liyi's Mr. China's Son, a profoundly accessible account of an intellectual and his revolutionary re-education. Fortunately, in December 1954, a permanent job supported by the government was offered to her in the presch
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A Ripple of Protest
From Socialism Is Great, A Worker's Memoir of the New China, by Zhang Lijia "The students have taken to the streets!" Life lit up Big Zhang's sleepy eyes as he walked into our workshop one morning in mid-December.
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Eating Monkey
My mother has cooked for us: raccoons, skunks, hawks, city pigeons, wild ducks, wild geese, black-skinned bantams, snakes, garden snails, turtles that crawled about the panty floor and sometimes escaped under regrigerator or stove, catfish th
