Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová -- Ai Wu, Chuntian (Spring), 1937 / Kirk Denton -- Ai Wu, Shanye (In the Mountains), 1948 / V. F. Sorokin -- Anon., Ku shehui (Miserable World), 1905 / Claudine Salmon -- Anon., Guanchang weixin ji (Reform in Officialdom), 1906 / David Pollard -- Ba Jin, Miewang (Destruction), 1929 / V.F. Sorokin -- Ba Jin, Aiqing de sanbuqu (Trilogy of Love), 1931-34 / V.F. Sorokin -- Ba Jin, Jia (Family), 1933 / Michael Egan -- Ba Jin, Qiyuan (Pleasure Garden), 1944 / Lennart Lundberg -- Ba Jin, Hanye (Cold Nights), 1946-47 / Paul Bady -- Cao Ming, Yuandongli (Primum Mobile), 1948 / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová -- Ding Ling, Shui (Flood), 1931 / Vibeke Bordahl -- Ding Ling, Taiyang zhao zai Sangganhe shang (The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River), 1949 / Wendy Locks -- Duanmu Hongliang, Dadi de hai (The Sea of Earth), 1938 / Ma Sen -- Duanmu Hongliang, Keerqinqi caoyuan (The Korchin Banner Plains), 1939 / C.T. Hsia -- Feng Cun, Dadi de cheng (A City on Earth), 1948 / Shu-Ying Tsau -- Feng Zhi, Wu Zixu (Wu Zixu), 1944 / Torbjörn Lodén -- Gu Liu, Xiaqiu zhuan (The Tale of Shrimpball), 1948 / Shu-ying Tsau -- Guo Moruo, Luoye (Fallen Leaves), 1926 / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová -- Guo Moruo, Wo de younian (The Years of My Youth), 1928 / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová -- Hong Lingfei, Liuwang (Exile), 1928 / Eva Müller -- Hu Yepin, Guangming zai women de mianqian (The Light Is Before Us), 1930 / W.J.F. Jenner -- Ji Wen, Shisheng (Voices from the Market), 1904 / V.F. Sorokin -- Jian Xian'ai, Gucheng ernü (Children of the Ancient City), 1946 / Elisabeth Eide -- Jiang Guangci, Shaonian piaobozhe (The Young Wanderer), 1926 / Marián Gálik -- Jiang Guangci, Chongchu yunwei de yueliang (The Moon Breaking Out from Behind the Clouds), 1930 / Zbigniew Slupski -- Jin Yi, Qianxi (Before Dawn), 1942 / Göran Sommardal -- Lao She, Lao Zhang de zhexue (The Philosophy of Lao Zhang), 1926 / Zbigniew Slupski -- Lao She, Maocheng ji (City of Cats), 1932-33 / Paul Bady -- Lao She, Lihun (Divorce), 1933 / Zbigniew Slupski -- Lao She, Luotuo Xiangzi (Camel Xiangzi), 1936-37 / Zbigniew Slupski -- Lao She, Sishi tong tang (Four Generations Under One Roof), 1944-46 / Paul Bady -- Li Boyuan, Wenming xiaoshi (A Brief History of Enlightenment), 1903-05 / Douglas Lancashire -- Li Boyuan, Guanchang xianxing ji (The Bureaucrats: A Revelation), 1903-05 / Donald Holoch -- Li Guangtian, Yinli (Gravitation), 1946 / Bonnie S. McDougall -- Li Jieren, Sishui weilan (Ripples on Dead Water), 1936 / Ma Sen -- Li Jieren, Dabo (The Great Wave), 1937 / Ma Sen -- Li Liancui, Songhuajiangshang (On the Banks of the Songhua River), 1945 / Catherine Gipoulon -- Liu E, Lao Can youji (The Travels of Lao Can), 1903-07 / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová and Tao Tao Liu Sanders -- Liu Yin, Ye duhui (Night Metropolis), 1942 / Michael Schoenhals -- Lu Ling, Ji'e de Guo Su'e (The Starving Guo Su'e), 1943 / Vibeke Bördahl -- Lu Ling, Caizhu de ernümen (The Rich Man's Children), 1948 / W.J.F. Jenner -- Luo Binji, Hundun, Jiang Buwei jiashi (Chaos, Jiang Buwei's Family History), 1944 / Liu Baisha -- Ma Feng and Xi Rong, Lüliang yingxiong zhuan (Heroes of the Lüliang Mountains), 1949 / W.J.F. Jenner -- Mao Dun, Shi (The Canker), 1927-28 / Fritz Gruner -- Mao Dun, Hong (The Rainbow), 1929-30 / Marián Gálik -- Mao Dun, Ziya (Midnight), 1933 / Fritz Gruner -- Mao Dun, Fushi (Decay), 1941 / Fritz Gruner -- Ouyang Shan, Gao Ganda (Uncle Gao), 1947 / Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg -- Qian Zhongshu, Weicheng (Fortress Besieged), 1946-77 / V.F. Sorokin -- Qin Shou'ou, Qiu Haitang (Begonia), 1941 / Edward Gunn -- Rou Shi, Eryue (Threshold of Spring), 1929 / Marián Gálik -- Sha Ding, Taojin ji (Gold Digging), 1943 / Helmut Martin -- Sha Ding, Huanxiang ji (The Return Home), 1948 / Helmut Martin -- Shen Congwen, Biancheng (Frontier Town), 1934 / Jeffrey Kinkley -- Shen Congwen, Changhe (The Long River), 1948 / Elisabeth Eide -- Shi Tuo, Jiehun (Marriage), 1947 / Zbigniew Slupski -- Shi Tuo, Ma Lan (Ma Lan), 1948 / Zbigniew Slupski -- Shu Qun, Laobing (Old Soldier), 1936 / Derek Ashley -- Sima Wensen, Ren de xiwang (Man's Hope), 1947 / Chan Hing-ho -- Su Manshu, Duanhong ling yan ji (The Lone Swan), 1912 / David Pollard -- Su Qing, Jie hun shinian (Ten Years of Marriage), 1944 / Wolfgang Kubin -- Tian Tao, Wotu (Rich Soil), 1947 / John Chinnery -- Wang Tongzhao, Yiye (A Leaf), 1922 / Torbjörn Lodén -- Wang Tongzhao, Shanyu (Mountain Rain), 1930 / Göran Sommardal -- Wang Xiyan, Cunye lianren (Country Lovers), 1944 / Britta Kinnemark-Lander -- Wu Woyao, Ershi nian mudu zhi guai xianzhuang (Strange Events Witnessed During the Last Twenty Years), 1903-10 / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová -- Wu Woyao, Henhai (Sea of Woe), 1905 / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová -- Wu Zuxiang, Yazuilao (Yazuilao), 1943-46 / Volker Klöpsch -- Xiang Kairan, Xiayi yingxiong zhuan (Stories of Chivalrous Heroes), 1923 / John Ma -- Xiao Hong, Shengsi chang (The Field of Life and Death), 1935 / Howard Goldblatt -- Xiao Hong, Hulanhe zhuan (Sketches of Hulan River), 1942 / Vibeke Bördahl -- Xiao Jun, Bayue de xiangcun (Countryside in August), 1935 / Vibeke Bördahl -- Xiao Qian, Meng zhi gu (Valley of Dreams), 1938 / Elisabeth Eide -- Xie Bingying, Yige nübing de zizhuan (The Autobiography of a Girl Soldier), 1936 / Gilbert Fong -- Xu Xu, Guilian (In Love with Ghost), 1937 / David Pollard -- Xu Xu, Feng xiaoxiao (The Rustling Wind), 1944 / Tao Tao Liu Sanders -- Xu Zhenya, Yuli hun (The Soul of Jade Pear Flowers), 1911 / Gilbert Fong -- Yan Wenjing, Yige ren de fannao (The Worries of a Man), 1943 / Lin Man-shu -- Yang Shuo, Hongshi shan (Red Rock Mountain), 1949 / Ching-yü Rotterová -- Yang Zhensheng, Yujun (Yujun), 1924 / A.D. Hyder -- Yao Xueyin, Chang ye (Long Night), 1947 / Ching-yü Rotterová -- Ye Shengtao, Ni Huanzhi (The Schoolmaster Ni Huanzhi), 1928 / V.F. Sorokin -- Ye Zi, Xing (Stars), 1936 / W.J.F. Jenner -- Yi Suo, Huang Xiuqiu (Huang Xiuqiu), [1905-07] / Catherine Gipoulon -- Yu Dafu, Miyang (The Stray Sheep), 1927-28 / Anna Doležalová -- Yu Dafu, Ta shi yige ruo nüzi (She is a Weak Woman), 1932 / Anna Doležalová -- Yu Feng, Xiangxia guniang (The Country Girl), 1943 / Liu Baisha -- Yu Ru, Yaoyuan de ai (A Remote Love), 1942 / Marián Gálik -- Yuan Jing and Kong Jue, Xueshi an (The Case of the Bloodstained Corpse), 1948 / Chiao Wei -- Yuan Jing and Kong Jue, Xin ernü yingxiong zhuan (A New Tale of Brave Sons and Daughters), 1949 / Chiao Wei -- Zeng Pu, Niehai hua (A Flower in an Ocean of Sin), 1905-16 / Peter Li -- Zhang Ailing, Jinsuo ji (The Golden Cangue), 1943 (?) / Elisabeth Eide -- Zhang Henshui, Tixiao yinyuan (Fate in Tears and Laughter), 1930 / Tao Tao Liu Sanders -- Zhang Tianyi, Guitu riji (Ghostland Diary), 1931 / Nigel Bedford -- Zhang Tianyi, Yinian (One Year), 1933 / Shu-ying Tsau -- Zhang Tianyi, Yangjingbang qixia (The Strange Knighterrant of the Shanghai Concessions), 1936 / Nigel Bedford -- Zhang Ziping, Chong jiqi huashi (Fossils in Alluvial Deposits), 1922 / Hwang Tsu-yü -- Zhao Shuli, Li Youcai banhua (The Rhymes of Li Youcai), 1943 / John Beyer -- Zhao Shuli, Lijiazhuang de bianqian (The Changes in Li Village), 1946 / John Beyer -- Zhou Libo, Baofeng zhouyu (The Hurricane), 1948 / Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg -- Zhou Wen, Yanmiaoji (Smoking Season), 1937 / Shu-ying Tsau.

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