Renditions

Nos. 87&88 (Spring & Autumn 2017)
special issue on Republican Urban Fiction

Contents

Editor's Page		5
Theodore Huters	Introduction: Cultivating the ‘Great Divide’: Urban Literature in Early Twentieth-Century China	7
Jianhua Chen	Introduction to Zhou Shoujuan	19
Zhou Shoujuan	The Little Apartment Across the Way Translated by Richard King	23
Zhou Shoujuan	Charming Confidante Translated by Cheuk Wong	29
Zhou Shoujuan	The Phonograph Record Translated by Andrew F. Jones	82
Zhu Shouju	The Shanghai Tide: excerpts Translated by Theodore Huters	91
	Chapter 1 (excerpt)	91
	Chapter 3 An Alert Usher Substitutes One Thing for Another A Wicked Section Chief Commits Massive Fraud	93
	Chapter 44 Gathering Up the Terrible Consequences to Grandly Raise a Revolutionary Army Unfolding Great Plans with an Artful Hand	110
	Chapter 45 Troops Defeated West of the City; The Lower Ranks Are Terrified In Removing to Zhabei, The Commander-in-Chief Is Ashamed	128
Cheng Zhanlu	On the Train Translated by Leo Yinquan Chen	147
Buxiaosheng	The Unofficial History of Sojourners in Japan: excerpt Translated by John Christopher Hamm	155
Buxiaosheng	Chapter 4 (excerpt) The Japs Feign Celebration, But Wind Up Taken In A Playboy Pens a Love Note, And Finds Himself a Win	158
Sun Liaohong	The Strange Cases of the Chivalrous Thief Lupin: The Mummy’s Hand Translated by John Christopher Hamm	165
Christopher G. Rea	Introduction to Xu Zhuodai	189
Xu Zhuodai	Opening Day Advertisement Translated by Christopher G. Rea	192
Xu Zhuodai	Fantastically Fabulous Translated by Maria Hongying Zheng and Sunny Yuchen Liu	203
Xu Zhenya	The Poison Bottle Translated by Jade Anqi Xie and Juliet Litian Zhu	235
Zhang Henshui	Eighty-One Dreams: excerpts	245
	Prologue—The Rat’s Leftovers	246
	The Fifth Dream: Extra! Extra! Translated by Simon Schuchat	250
Notes on Authors		269
Notes on Contributors		271