| Volume    I: Fiction  | 
        
        
          | Table of contents | 
        
        
          | Eva Hung—Room to Let:    Anthologizing Hong Kong Literature  | 
        
        
          | 1. Familiar Marvels | 
        
        
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          Liu    Yichang: Chain  | 
        
        
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          Gao    Xiong: Two Decades of Hong Kong Oddities (excerpts)  | 
        
        
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          Ni    Kuang: Antiques Alley: A Ge-Ware Incense Burner with 'Flying' | 
        
        
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          Handles    and Six Legs in Crackled Fenqing Glaze | 
        
        
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          Liu    Yichang: Wrong Number  | 
        
        
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          Xi    Xi: Marvels of A Floating City  | 
        
        
          | 2. Folks Next Door | 
        
        
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          Lü    Lun: The Lottery Ticket | 
        
        
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          Yi    Shu: Homecoming  | 
        
        
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          Virginia    Suk Yin Ng: Father  | 
        
        
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          Lü Qi    Shi: Air Granny  | 
        
        
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          Chan    Wai Ying: Tied Together by Fate  | 
        
        
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          Chan    Hay Ching: You and Your Father and Your Mother  | 
        
        
          | 3. Shadowlands | 
        
        
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          Wu    Xubin: The Sea  | 
        
        
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          Peng    Cao: The Red Horse  | 
        
        
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          Xi    Xi: A Girl Like Me  | 
        
        
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          Chan    Po Chun: Beginnings and Endings  | 
        
        
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          Wong    Pok: Topic of Conversation  | 
        
        
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          Ngan    Shun Kau: The Censure of Heaven  | 
        
        
          | 4. Seasons of the Heart | 
        
        
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          Zi    Ren: Long Corridor, Short Song  | 
        
        
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          Sharon    Hiu Ieong Chung: Greensleeves  | 
        
        
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          Xin    Qi Shi: Missing Person  | 
        
        
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          Patsy    Lai Shan Kwan: The Angel and the Angel's Halo  | 
        
        
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          Wong    Bik Wan: Plenty and Sorrow  | 
        
        
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          Dung    Kai Cheung: The Rise and Fall of Wing      Shing Street  | 
        
        
          Notes on Authors 
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          | Notes on Translators | 
        
        
           
             
             
             
          Volume II: Essays &    Poetry | 
        
        
          | Table of contents | 
        
        
          | 1. History's Alleyways | 
        
        
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          Yin    Jiang: A Spell  | 
        
        
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          Huang    Lu: Hawkers of Olives  | 
        
        
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          Lu Yi    Shi: Song on a Rainy Day  | 
        
        
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          Fan    Sin Piu: Passing My Father's Old Shop  | 
        
        
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          Tao    Jie: The Rings of a Tree  | 
        
        
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          Han    Mu: On this Land there once Lived  | 
        
        
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          Yip    Fai: The Old Chap in the Shop of Paper Effigies  | 
        
        
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          Du    Du: Going to the Movies  | 
        
        
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          Stephen    Soong: Trite Language  | 
        
        
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          Xia    Guo: The Emotional Appeal of Wonton Noodles  | 
        
        
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          Xiao    Si: A History in Books  | 
        
        
          | 2. Local Habitations | 
        
        
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          Li    Yuzhong: In the City, the Month of May  | 
        
        
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          Shu    Xiang Cheng: Cable Car on Victoria     Peak  | 
        
        
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          Margaret    Ng: A Place    of One's Own  | 
        
        
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          Xiao    Si: Night Market  | 
        
        
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          Tang    Da Jiang: Having Tea  | 
        
        
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          Wu    Yin Ching: High Street  | 
        
        
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          Choi    Chi Fung: Sleepwalk in the Suburbs  | 
        
        
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          Ma    Kwok Ming: My Childhood in Tsuen Wan (excerpts)  | 
        
        
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          Chan    Chi Tak: Boat and Home  | 
        
        
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          DEL: The Eight-thirty Train  | 
        
        
          | 3. Distant Vistas | 
        
        
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          Liu    Mu Xia: Skyscraper  | 
        
        
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          Joseph    S. M. Lau: Potato-eating Days (excerpts)  | 
        
        
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          Gu    Cangwu: Seeing Snow the Second Time  | 
        
        
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          Wan    Kin Lau: Sunday, Overcast  | 
        
        
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          Yu    Feng: The Kite  | 
        
        
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          Chan    Siu Wah: White Hair  | 
        
        
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          Qiu    Cheng: Return  | 
        
        
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          Tsai    Yim Pui: Decathlon  | 
        
        
          | 4. China    • China | 
        
        
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          Chen    Jiangfan: Eventide  | 
        
        
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          Li    Kuang: Doors  | 
        
        
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          He    Da: The Times  | 
        
        
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          Ronald    P. Mar: The Prodigal Sons who Burnt their Harps  | 
        
        
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          Kun Nan: Hail, the Steeds of Legend  | 
        
        
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          Ji    Hun: Loss  | 
        
        
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          Dai    Tian: The Story of the Stone  | 
        
        
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          Yuan    Yuan: Good Work Undone  | 
        
        
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          Tsai    Yim Pui: Six Martyrs  | 
        
        
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          Wong    Pok: On Forbearance  | 
        
        
          | 5. Third Side of the Strait | 
        
        
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          Xu    Su: Reading History Plays  | 
        
        
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          Xu    Xu: Freedom Not to Speak  | 
        
        
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          Yu    Kwang-chung: The Kowloon-Canton Railway  | 
        
        
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          Laurence    Wong: I Fear I May Grow Old before Frost Fall  | 
        
        
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          Dong    Qiao: This Generation  | 
        
        
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          Lau    Wai Shing: On Passing by Train through Tangshan  | 
        
        
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          Chung    Wai Man: Conch Shells in the Mist  | 
        
        
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          Chan    Chi Tak: Flag  | 
        
        
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          Li    Yue: Sacred Territory  | 
        
        
          | 6. 1997 | 
        
        
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          Ah    Lian: If I Had Roots Too  | 
        
        
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          Ha    Gong: The Legalization of Rape  | 
        
        
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          Ha    Gong: Getting High  | 
        
        
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          Ji    Hun: I'm Afraid I'll Fall Asleep Before Dawn  | 
        
        
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          Cheung    Siu Por: Refused Entry to Peking     University  | 
        
        
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          Cheung    Siu Por: Ears Pressed to Echo Wall  | 
        
        
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          Chang    Chak Yan: A Tale of Tangled Lines  | 
        
        
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          Chan    Chi Wa: Images of Hong Kong in the Tourist  | 
        
        
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          Association's    Publicity Films  | 
        
        
          | 7. Of Life and Living | 
        
        
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          Shu    Xiang Cheng: Ten Lines  | 
        
        
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          Cao    Juren: Having Drifted over the Sea     of Life (excerpts)  | 
        
        
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          Wong    Man: Obdurate  | 
        
        
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          Si    Guo: Unemployed  | 
        
        
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          Lau    Wai Shing: A Moth in the Strip Light  | 
        
        
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          Hui    Tik Cheung: Falling  | 
        
        
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          Chung    Ling Ling: Those Aches and Pains  | 
        
        
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          Wong    Leung Wo: At Midnight, I Saw your Little Shoes  | 
        
        
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          Hanging    at the Bathroom Window-to Ying-ying  | 
        
        
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          Yin    Jiang: Flying Ants over Water  | 
        
        
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          Xi    Xi: Elegy for a Breast (excerpts)  | 
        
        
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          Tang Siu Wa:    Stilled  | 
        
        
          | 8.    Fairground Mirrors | 
        
        
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          Ou    Wai Ou: Love Takes a Bus  | 
        
        
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          San    Su: Paying One's Last Respects is Both a Source of | 
        
        
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          Anguish    for the Living and an Insult to the Dead  | 
        
        
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          Chai Wa Wa:    True Confession  | 
        
        
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          Wang    Ting Zhi: Support the Construction of Daya Bay    Nuclear | 
        
        
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          Plant  | 
        
        
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          Xiao    Xi: 'You Don't Want Roses'  | 
        
        
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          Zhang    Wenda: I'm All for Fox Fairies  | 
        
        
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          Gaylord    Kai Loh Leung: Homage to the Toilet  | 
        
        
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          Xiang    Zhuang: The Overdevelopment of Language  | 
        
        
          | 9. A Grain of Sand | 
        
        
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          Yin    Han: A Small Fish  | 
        
        
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          Hung    Chi: The Stewed-Pork Vendor  | 
        
        
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          P. K.    Leung: Not Just Another New Year's Painting  | 
        
        
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          Wu    Yin Ching: Garment Reading  | 
        
        
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          Huang    Canran: Loneliness  | 
        
        
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          Chan    Tak Kam: Blind Fortune-tellers  | 
        
        
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          P. K.    Leung: Bittermelon  | 
        
        
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          Fan    Sin Piu: Afternoon Anxieties  | 
        
        
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          Liu    Wai Tong: To a Young Lady in an MTR Train  | 
        
        
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          Lee    Ying Ho: No Exit  | 
        
        
          | 10. All are Written unto Me | 
        
        
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          Huang    Canran: 'Who am I?'  | 
        
        
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          Heather    Tu: The Witch's Song  | 
        
        
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          Yip    Fai: The Nut in a Drawer  | 
        
        
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          Heather    Tu: Denial of the Flesh  | 
        
        
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          Xu    Su: Giving up Smoking  | 
        
        
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          Zhao    Tao: My Life with Mirrors  | 
        
        
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          Gu    Cangwu: On the Tower  | 
        
        
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          Ho    Fuk Yan: Letter Writing  | 
        
        
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          Wong    Leung Wo: Still Unborn  | 
        
        
          | Notes on Authors
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          | Notes on Translators | 
        
        
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