Chinese Middlebrow Fiction: From the Ch'ing and Early Republican Eras

Edited by Liu Ts’un-yan

1984
380 pages
ISBN 962-201-309-0

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Table of Contents

PREFACE
LIU TS’UN-YAN: Introduction: “Middlebrow” in Perspective 1
P’U SUNG-LING: Marriage as Retribution
Translated by Chi-chen Wang
41
HAN PANG-CH’ING: Sing-song Girls of Shanghai
Translated by Eileen Chang
95
STEPHEN CHENG: Sing-song Girls of Shanghai and Its Narrative Methods 111
TSENG P’U: A Flower in a Sinful Sea
Translated by Rafe de Crespigny and Liu Ts’un-yan
137
H.P. TSENG: My Father’s Literary Journey
Translated by Colin Modini
193
C.T. HSIA: Hsü Chen-ya’s Yü-li hun: An Essay in Literary History and Criticism 199
PERRY LINK: An Interview with Pao T’ien-hsiao 241
CHANG HEN-SHUI: Fate in Tears and Laughter
Translated by Sally Borthwick
255
LI PO-YÜAN: Modern Times or A Brief History of Enlightenment
Translated by Douglas Lancashire
289
WU WO-YAO: Bizarre Happenings Eyewitnessed in Two Decades
Translated by Shih Shun Liu
341
LIU TS’UN-YAN: Postscript 364
Notes on Contributors 368
Notes on Illustrations 370