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Vague Expectations: Xiao Hong Miscellany
By Xiao Hong
Compiled and translated by Howard Goldblatt
2020
264 pages
ISBN 978-962-7255-47-5
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Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | 9 |
| Prelude | 11 |
| Stories | |
| Abandoned Infant (1933) | 19 |
| Little Six (1935) | 36 |
| The Red Orchard (1936) | 41 |
| The Child’s Speech (1938) | 44 |
| Vague Expectations (1938) | 51 |
| The Garden Out Back (1940) | 60 |
| North China (1941) | 81 |
| Spring in a Small Town (1941) | 107 |
| Interlude | |
| Lu Xun: Soul of the Nation (1940) | 135 |
| Prose | |
| The Day Granddad Died (1935) | 159 |
| In Tokyo (1937) | 163 |
| A Rail Line Is Completed (1937) | 170 |
| Kaji and Ikeda (1938) | 176 |
| Learning Esperanto (1938) | 186 |
| The Curative Power of Toothpowder (1939) | 188 |
| Sedan Poles (1939) | 192 |
| Lin Two (1939) | 196 |
| Diners (1939) | 200 |
| Remembering Lu Xun (1939) | 203 |
| Poems, Reflections, Epistles | |
| A Perpetual Longing and Quest (1936) | 243 |
| Sand Pebbles (1937) | 245 |
| At the Gravesite (1937) | 253 |
| A Letter to My Brother on 18 September (1941) | 256 |
| Coda | 263 |