The big red book of modern Chinese literature: writings from the Mainland in the long twentieth century

Part 1. 1911-1949 Introduction to the republican era Preface to 'Call to arms' / Lu Xun A madman's diary / Lu Xun The butterflies / Hu Shih Dream and poetry / Hu Shih One smile / Hu Shih To the tune of Shengzhazi / Hu Shih The streets of heaven / Guo Moruo The sky dog / Guo Moruo The nirvana of the Feng and Huang: prelude How can I not miss her / Liu Bannong Paper thin / Liu Bannong The peanut / Xu Dishan I think / Xu Dishan A maze of stars (selections) / Bing Xin Spring water (selections) / Bing Xin The abandoned woman / Li Jinfa The expression of time / Li Jinfa Malady of spring nights / Yu Dafu For the love of her feet / He Haiming The moonlit lotus pond / Zhu Ziqing Second farewell to Cambridge / Xu Zhimo By chance / Xu Zhimo The dead water / Wen Yiduo Perhaps (a dirge) / Wen Yiduo Confession / Wen Yidou Miss Sophia's diary (excerpt) / Ding Ling Rainbow (excerpt) / Mao Dun Family (excerpts) / Ba Jin Rainy alley / Dai Wangshu I think / Dai Wangshu Border town (excerpts) / Shen Congwen Reading in the lavatory / Zhou Zuoren My country and my people (excerpt) / Lin Yutang Rickshaw (excerpts) / Lao She Evening / Bian Zhilin Dream of the old town / Bian Zhilin Fragment / Bian Zhilin Loneliness / Bian Zhilin Tales of Hulan River (excerpt) / Xiao Hong

Part 2. 1949-1976 Introduction to the revolutionary era Changsha / Mao Zedong Mount Liupan / Mao Zedong Snow / Mao Zedong Quotations from Chairman Mao (excerpts) / Mao Zedong Wheelbarrow / Ai Qing Dayanhe: my wet nurse / Ai Qing On a Chilean cigarette package / Ai Qing The young man who has just arrived at the organization / Wang Meng Department (excerpts) / Wang Meng The unglovable hands / Zhao Shuli The red lantern: a revolutionary Peking opera in eleven acts (excerpt) / Anonymous

Part 3. 1976-present

Introduction to the post-Mao era

The answer / Bei Dao

Let's go / Bei Dao

Notes from the City of the Sun / Bei Dao

The red sailboat / Bei Dao

City gate open up (excerpt) / Bei Dao

A generation / Gu Cheng

Nameless flowers / Gu Cheng

Farewell, cemetery / Gu Cheng

I'm a willful child / Gu Cheng

Red sorghum (excerpts) / Mo Yan

To an oak / Shu Ting

A roadside encounter / Shu Ting

Assembly line / Shu Ting

Where the soul dwells / Shu Ting

In search of the king of singers (excerpts) / Liu Suola

Norlang / Yang Lian

Burial ground / Yang Lian

The book of exile / Yang Lian

Masks and crocodile (selections) / Yang Lian

Hut on the mountain / Can Xue

Love in a small town / Wang Anyi

Premonition / Zhai Yongming

Hypnosis / Zhai Yongming

The language of the '50s / Zhai Yongming

Your hands / Hai Zi

Facing the ocean, spring warms flowers open / Hai Zi

Spring, ten Hai Zis / Hai Zi

Thirteen ways to fold a paper hawk / Ma Yuan

The night in the end / Che Qianzi

Sign: inspired by a letter / Che Qianzi

A Chinese character comic strip / Che Qianzi

An antique style door screen / Che Qianzi

File o / Yu Jian

Night comes to Calabash Street / Chi Zijian

On the road at eighteen / Yu Hua

Raise the red lantern (excerpt) / Su Tong

A starry moment / Zhang Zao

Into the mirror / Zhang Zao

Elegy / Zhang Zao

On the other side of the river / Xi Chuan

Blackout / Xi Chuan

Far away / Xi Chuan

If I have to die / Yu Xinqiao

Epitaph / Yu Xinqiao

The dead are mourning the living / Yu Xinqiao

Self-introduction / Yu Xinqiao

Soul mountain (excerpts) / Gao Xingjian

Nothing to my name / Cui Jian.