Vague Expectations: Xiao Hong Miscellany

By Xiao Hong
Compiled and translated by Howard Goldblatt


Table of contents

Acknowledgements

9

Prelude

11

Stories

 

      Abandoned Infant (1933)

19

      Little Six (1935)

36

      The Red Orchard (1936)

41

      The Child’s Speech (1938)

44

      Vague Expectations (1938)

51

      The Garden Out Back (1940)

60

      North China (1941)

81

      Spring in a Small Town (1941)

107

Interlude

 

      Lu Xun: Soul of the Nation (1940)

135

Prose

 

      The Day Granddad Died (1935)

159

      In Tokyo (1937)

163

      A Rail Line Is Completed (1937)

170

      Kaji and Ikeda (1938)

176

      Learning Esperanto (1938)

186

      The Curative Power of Toothpowder (1939)

188

      Sedan Poles (1939)

192

      Lin Two (1939)

196

      Diners (1939)

200

      Remembering Lu Xun (1939)

203

Poems, Reflections, Epistles

 

      A Perpetual Longing and Quest (1936)

243

      Sand Pebbles (1937)

245

      At the Gravesite (1937)

253

      A Letter to My Brother on 18 September (1941)

256

Coda

263


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