ABSTRACT

Translations of six stories accompany seven papers from a workshop on critical approaches to modern Chinese short stories held at the U. of Hawaii in December 1982. With one exception, the essays analyze the stories presented, looking at such factors as the psychological structure, the narrator, ide

part |118 pages

Reading the Modern Chinese Short Story

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

chapter |15 pages

Lao She's “Black Li and White Li”

A Reading in Psychological Structure

chapter |14 pages

The Barred View

On the Enigmatic Narrator in Xiao Jun's “Goats”

chapter |23 pages

The Dialectics of Struggle

Ideology and Realism in Mao Dun's “Algae”

chapter |18 pages

The Telling of Shi Tuo's "A Kiss"

Few Words and Several Voices