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245 00$aLoud sparrows :$bcontemporary Chinese short-shorts /$cselected and translated by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, Howard Goldblatt.

260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c2006.

300 $axxiii, 239 p. ;$c24 cm.

490 1 $aWeatherhead books on Asia

504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-236).

505 0 $aForeword / Bei Dao -- Introduction -- 1: Grooming -- Lover's ear /Yuan Qiongqiong -- Mothballs / Chen Kehua -- Shaved head / Wang Meng -- Lover / Chen Kehua -- Losing the feet / Zhong Jufang -- Fad / Zhang Zheng -- 2: Change -- Wrong number / Liu Yichang -- Learning to talk / Wang Meng -- Seat / Liu Guofang -- Self-murder / Cai Nan -- Last stop, Mongkok / Che Zhengxuan -- Parting / Wang Kuishan -- Beat / Liu Xinwu -- 3: Choices -- Left with no chance / Chang Gang -- Sunday morning / Xi Xi -- Jailbreak / Ku Ling -- Cup of tea / Yu Yingmao -- In the haystack / Cao Naiqian -- Returning home on a stormy night / He Weiping -- Tied together by fate / Chen Huiying -- 4: Governance -- Busy secretary / Zhan Jing -- Cloth shoes / Ah Cheng -- Promotion report / Chen Hengchu -- Purchase request for a kettle / Xu Shijie -- Capable man can't handle a small case / Liu Jing -- Ears / Sun Xuemin -- 5: Games -- What's up, Lao Cao? / Chen Shixu -- General / Liu Jianchao -- Number eight / Wu Yimin -- Observe / Ah Cheng -- Confinement / Yuan Bingfa -- Here's how the flu spreads / Qin Yong -- Upholder of unity / Wang Meng -- 6: Controversy -- Tail / Wang Zengqi -- Black hen, white hen / Ji Dongliang -- My one comment too many / Yi Ming -- Gan Xiaocao's bamboo pole / Deng Hongwei -- Right to the heart of the matter / Wang Meng -- Sexual harassment / Lin Li-chun -- 7: Anticipations -- Bed-wetting / Zhang Jishu -- Principle of rebound / Xu Haiwei -- Accidental confidante / Bai Xiaoyi -- Matching sets / Wei Jinshu -- Home / Xiu Xiangming -- Rendez-vous / Si Li --

505 0 $a8: Creatures -- Cat / Yuan Qiongqiong -- Pets / Ah Cheng -- Sea turtle / Zhang Kangkang -- Flies / Yuan Qiongqiong -- Crow and the fox / Liang Dazhi -- Waiting for a windfall / Wang Yanyan -- Little stray cat / Zhong Ling -- 9: Sharing -- Division / Zhou Rui -- Postcards / Ye Si -- Cycle / Ah Cheng -- Black Umbrella / Yi Ruofen -- Small-hands Chen / Wang Zengqi -- It was the pumpkin that brought me here / Luo Feng -- In-law / Cao Naiqian -- 10: (In)fidelities -- Elope / Fu Aimao -- Frenchie / Ai Ya -- Hickey / Ku Ling -- Horse talk / Mo Yan -- Family catastrophe / Ku Ling -- Hatred / Ah Cheng -- Confession of a photographer / Ku Ling -- 11: Nourishment -- Good wine / Chen Hui -- Chimney smoke / Ah Cheng -- 0 Cafe / Ku Ling -- Bus stop and haws-sicles /Zhou Rui -- Granny Drunkard / Feng Jicai -- Tea scum / Ling Dingnian -- 12: Weirdness -- Disputatiasis / Wang Meng -- Features-column editor's day-dream / Liu Yichang -- Death dream / Ku Ling -- Empty seat / Yuan Qiongqiong -- Little, little, little, little, little / Wang Meng -- Strange encounter / Mo Yan -- 13: ? -- Explosion in the living room / Bai Xiaoyi -- Going home / Ai Ya -- It looks as if / Teng Gang -- Not seen / Yuan Qiongqiong -- My wife finally goes camping / Lin Ji -- Contemplating water / Zhong Ling -- 14: Elegy -- Father / Yuan Qiongqiong -- Knock at the door / Lin Jinlan -- Grandpa Pothook / Cao Naiqian -- Killer well / Zhong Ling -- Looking back at life at the moment of death / Cai Nan -- Encounter with General Zhou / Chi Zijian -- 15: Looking backward and looking ahead -- Look / Li Zuchen -- Notes -- About the authors.

520 $aFrom the Publisher: Extremely short stories-known as short-shorts-have become a global phenomenon, but nowhere have they been embraced as enthusiastically as in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The form's artistic and aesthetic freedoms allow authors to capture the tone, texture, and chaos of their rapidly changing societies in infinitely inventive ways. Fragments and contingencies reveal unofficial histories, undocumented memories, and the trials of everyday individuals, and the genre's lean format is a welcome antidote to a culture characterized by rampant excess. Loud Sparrows is a spirited collection of ninety-one short-shorts written by Chinese authors over the past three decades. Presenting diverse voices and perspectives by writers both well known and new to the art, the stories are culled from newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and personal collections. Their subjects range from the mundane to the sublime and illuminate everything from humanist ideals to traditional virtues to the material benefits of a commercialized society. The anthology is organized into thematic categories such as Change, Creatures, (In)fidelities, Grooming, Governance, Nourishment, and Weirdness, and includes notes to better understand the genre. Each section is introduced by an original piece of flash fiction written by Howard Goldblatt. The short-short, to borrow a Chinese saying, is "small as a sparrow but has all the vital organs" of a good story. Loud Sparrows offers a comprehensive introduction to a unique literary genre that has revolutionized world literature.

546 $aTranslated from the Chinese.

650 0$aShort stories, Chinese.$3363468

700 1 $aMu, Aili.$3363465

700 1 $aChiu, Julie.$3363466

700 1 $aGoldblatt, Howard,$d1939-$3238700

776 08$iOnline version:$tLoud sparrows.$dNew York : Columbia University Press, c2006$w(OCoLC)631332485

830 0$aWeatherhead books on Asia.$3363467