Toc: Introduction to Volume Thirteen – Culture and Nature, Individual and Community, by Timothy Huson............ 7
A Note on the Translations...................................................................................................................................... 14
A Note from Assistant Editor Zhou Shengjie.......................................................................................................... 16
Chinese Stories in Translation................................................................................................................................. 18
In Company with a Depression Sufferer, by Chen Jiyi, (translators: Zhou Shengjie, Liu Zhiting,
Timothy Huson) ....................................................................................................................................................... 19
Death, Illusion, and Reality in Chen Jiyi's “In Company With a Depression Sufferer,” by Timothy Huson......... 58
A Long Journey from Home at Eighteen, by Yu Hua (translators: Zhou Shengjie, Zhang Yu, Timothy Huson).. 81
Life's Lessons in Yu Hua's “A Long Journey From Home at Eighteen,” by Pang Huanyi...................................... 95
Buried in Peace, by Yan Xi Zao (translators: Tan Chunli and Timothy Huson) .................................................. 104
入土为安.................................................................................................................................................................. 120
The Circle: a Review of Yan Xi Zao's “Buried in Peace,” by Lu Wei...................................................................... 132
Auto-Biographical Essays....................................................................................................................................... 136
Self-analysis, by Zhuang Jiamin..............................................................................................................................137
My Childhood, by Li Huiyin....................................................................................................................................156
Poetry.......................................................................................................................................................................164
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