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I. Literature from the People's Republic: Historical blunders: The enigmatic laughter of insanity : a modern love story / Wang Ruowang. A written testimonial : about the Cultural Revolution / Feng Jicai. I am not Solzhenitsyn : from an eyewitness of the labor camps / Cong Wiixi. On behalf of humanism : the confession of a former leftist / Dai Houying ; Further victims of politics in the eighties: Against those who wield the scissors : a plea for an end to censorship / Wu Zuguang. China's contemporary literature : reaching out to the world and to the future / Bai Hua. Reflections in the hot springs of Hakone : China, our impoverished, trouble-ridden motherland / Liu Xinwu ; Patterns of the new literature: Banished to Xinjiang : or, About bestial hatred of literature / Wang Meng. Novels strangled in the cradle : my senseless literary battles / Chen Rong. Spokesman for a victimized generation : can there be progress after "midlife"? / Lu Wenfu. After twenty years of silence we lick our wounds : our battle for a place in world literature / Zhang Xianliang ; Accounts of rural realities: Thrusts of violent creativity : "I returned with my hands empty and shame on my face" / Gao Xiaosheng. The slow maturation of my craft : tea in cold water steeps slowly / Gu Hua. Life is changing, even in hilly Shangzhou / Jia Pingwa ; Rising in protest : a new generation: The first half of my life : a boy from the city struggling for survival in far-away Yunnan / Zhong Acheng ; Against complacency : women writers: The boat I steer : a study in perseverance / Zhang Jie. Needed : a spirit of courageous self-examination / Wang Anyi ; Documentary literature: Is reportage to be excluded from the realm of literature? : the function of warning bells / Liu Binyan. A "Bengal tigress" interviews herself : a panorama of our times from within / Zhang Xinxin ; The search for "roots": After the "literature of the wounded" : local cultures, roots, maturity, and fatigue / Han Shaogong ; Combining past and present: We must not forget our historical roots : popular literature, Peking opera, and modern prose / Wang Zengqi ; An abrupt end to PRC literature of the eighties: The "June 4 syndrome" : spiritual and ideological schizophrenia / Zhang Xinxin -- II. Without a regime or regimen : entertainment fiction: Adventure novels: Against the authors of "foreign books in Chinese language" : an interview with China's most popular writer of adventure novels / Jin Yong -- III. Chinese literature from Taiwan: Modernists and semi-(c)♭migr(c)♭s: The Chinese student movement abroad : exiled writers in the New World / Bai Xianyong. On the miseries of writers in American exile : sanitized versions for Taiwan, Hing Kong, and the People's Republic / Chen Ruoxi. Such a symphony of written characters one must not allow to disperse / Wang Wenxing ; The native realists : black humor and other experiments: How love scatters : on the publication of the first collection of my works / Qideng Sheng. Father's writings have been republished : or, The sexuality of women students in a Tabei bookstore / Huang Chunming. Things Chinese and foreign, ancient and modern : an absurd comedy / Wang Zhenhe ; Ideologists: Against Taiwan's "orphan mentality" : the author as his own critic / Chen Yingzhen. Native literature as a stimulus for social change : from a writing career to political activism / Wang Tuo ; Alienation, withdrawal, and dissent: Cold ashes in the heart : the tragedy of Taiwanese literature / Song Zelai. Concern about the native land : on the taking of a pseudonym / Lin Shuangbu ; New generations: From Tabei's suburbs : into the hubbub of Taiwan's economic miracle / Huang Fan. Protest of a woman author against reckless accusations : another self-interview, this time from Taibei / Li Ang. Vanished virility : stories--my last returning castle / Wu Jinfa -- IV. The Republican era revisisted: Changing times: Suppressed furor against foreign troops : an unwritten novel and a play about the Boxer uprising / Lao She. A literary outcry : awakening from unconsciousness / Lu Xun. My J'accuse against this moribund system : notes on a crumbling landlord clan of wstern Sichuan / Ba Jin. Shanghai's silk industry : world economic crisis, workers, and civil war / Mao Dun ; New forms of self-consciousness: Fiction and society : changes and continuities in mass audiences / Shen Congwen. International Shanghai, 1941 : coffee house chat about sexual intimacy and the childlike charm of the Japanese / Zhang Ailing. Foolish dreams : like a blind person going fishing / Ding Ling. Early autobiographical fragments : a young sojourner in a foreign land / Yu Dafu
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