To Pierce the Material Screen:
An Anthology of 20th-Century Hong Kong Literature
An Anthology of 20th-Century Hong Kong Literature
Edited by Eva Hung with the assistance of Chi-yin Ip
| Volume I: Fiction | ||
| Table of contents | ||
| Eva Hung—Room to Let: Anthologizing Hong Kong Literature | ||
| 1. Familiar Marvels | ||
| Liu Yichang: Chain | ||
| Gao Xiong: Two Decades of Hong Kong Oddities (excerpts) | ||
| Ni Kuang: Antiques Alley: A Ge-Ware Incense Burner with 'Flying' | ||
| Handles and Six Legs in Crackled Fenqing Glaze | ||
| Liu Yichang: Wrong Number | ||
| Xi Xi: Marvels of A Floating City | ||
| 2. Folks Next Door | ||
| Lü Lun: The Lottery Ticket | ||
| Yi Shu: Homecoming | ||
| Virginia Suk Yin Ng: Father | ||
| Lü Qi Shi: Air Granny | ||
| Chan Wai Ying: Tied Together by Fate | ||
| Chan Hay Ching: You and Your Father and Your Mother | ||
| 3. Shadowlands | ||
| Wu Xubin: The Sea | ||
| Peng Cao: The Red Horse | ||
| Xi Xi: A Girl Like Me | ||
| Chan Po Chun: Beginnings and Endings | ||
| Wong Pok: Topic of Conversation | ||
| Ngan Shun Kau: The Censure of Heaven | ||
| 4. Seasons of the Heart | ||
| Zi Ren: Long Corridor, Short Song | ||
| Sharon Hiu Ieong Chung: Greensleeves | ||
| Xin Qi Shi: Missing Person | ||
| Patsy Lai Shan Kwan: The Angel and the Angel's Halo | ||
| Wong Bik Wan: Plenty and Sorrow | ||
| 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 |
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| Table of contents | ||
| 1. History's Alleyways | ||
| Yin Jiang: A Spell | ||
| Huang Lu: Hawkers of Olives | ||
| Lu Yi Shi: Song on a Rainy Day | ||
| Fan Sin Piu: Passing My Father's Old Shop | ||
| Tao Jie: The Rings of a Tree | ||
| Han Mu: On this Land there once Lived | ||
| Yip Fai: The Old Chap in the Shop of Paper Effigies | ||
| Du Du: Going to the Movies | ||
| Stephen Soong: Trite Language | ||
| Xia Guo: The Emotional Appeal of Wonton Noodles | ||
| Xiao Si: A History in Books | ||
| 2. Local Habitations | ||
| Li Yuzhong: In the City, the Month of May | ||
| Shu Xiang Cheng: Cable Car on Victoria Peak | ||
| Margaret Ng: A Place of One's Own | ||
| Xiao Si: Night Market | ||
| Tang Da Jiang: Having Tea | ||
| Wu Yin Ching: High Street | ||
| Choi Chi Fung: Sleepwalk in the Suburbs | ||
| Ma Kwok Ming: My Childhood in Tsuen Wan (excerpts) | ||
| Chan Chi Tak: Boat and Home | ||
| DEL: The Eight-thirty Train | ||
| 3. Distant Vistas | ||
| Liu Mu Xia: Skyscraper | ||
| Joseph S. M. Lau: Potato-eating Days (excerpts) | ||
| Gu Cangwu: Seeing Snow the Second Time | ||
| Wan Kin Lau: Sunday, Overcast | ||
| Yu Feng: The Kite | ||
| Chan Siu Wah: White Hair | ||
| Qiu Cheng: Return | ||
| Tsai Yim Pui: Decathlon | ||
| 4. China • China | ||
| Chen Jiangfan: Eventide | ||
| Li Kuang: Doors | ||
| He Da: The Times | ||
| Ronald P. Mar: The Prodigal Sons who Burnt their Harps | ||
| Kun Nan: Hail, the Steeds of Legend | ||
| Ji Hun: Loss | ||
| Dai Tian: The Story of the Stone | ||
| Yuan Yuan: Good Work Undone | ||
| Tsai Yim Pui: Six Martyrs | ||
| Wong Pok: On Forbearance | ||
| 5. Third Side of the Strait | ||
| Xu Su: Reading History Plays | ||
| Xu Xu: Freedom Not to Speak | ||
| Yu Kwang-chung: The Kowloon-Canton Railway | ||
| Laurence Wong: I Fear I May Grow Old before Frost Fall | ||
| Dong Qiao: This Generation | ||
| Lau Wai Shing: On Passing by Train through Tangshan | ||
| Chung Wai Man: Conch Shells in the Mist | ||
| Chan Chi Tak: Flag | ||
| Li Yue: Sacred Territory | ||
| 6. 1997 | ||
| Ah Lian: If I Had Roots Too | ||
| Ha Gong: The Legalization of Rape | ||
| Ha Gong: Getting High | ||
| Ji Hun: I'm Afraid I'll Fall Asleep Before Dawn | ||
| Cheung Siu Por: Refused Entry to Peking University | ||
| Cheung Siu Por: Ears Pressed to Echo Wall | ||
| Chang Chak Yan: A Tale of Tangled Lines | ||
| Chan Chi Wa: Images of Hong Kong in the Tourist | ||
| Association's Publicity Films | ||
| 7. Of Life and Living | ||
| Shu Xiang Cheng: Ten Lines | ||
| Cao Juren: Having Drifted over the Sea of Life (excerpts) | ||
| Wong Man: Obdurate | ||
| Si Guo: Unemployed | ||
| Lau Wai Shing: A Moth in the Strip Light | ||
| Hui Tik Cheung: Falling | ||
| Chung Ling Ling: Those Aches and Pains | ||
| Wong Leung Wo: At Midnight, I Saw your Little Shoes | ||
| Hanging at the Bathroom Window－to Ying-ying | ||
| Yin Jiang: Flying Ants over Water | ||
| Xi Xi: Elegy for a Breast (excerpts) | ||
| Tang Siu Wa: Stilled | ||
| 8. Fairground Mirrors | ||
| Ou Wai Ou: Love Takes a Bus | ||
| San Su: Paying One's Last Respects is Both a Source of | ||
| Anguish for the Living and an Insult to the Dead | ||
| Chai Wa Wa: True Confession | ||
| Wang Ting Zhi: Support the Construction of Daya Bay Nuclear | ||
| Plant | ||
| Xiao Xi: 'You Don't Want Roses' | ||
| Zhang Wenda: I'm All for Fox Fairies | ||
| Gaylord Kai Loh Leung: Homage to the Toilet | ||
| Xiang Zhuang: The Overdevelopment of Language | ||
| 9. A Grain of Sand | ||
| Yin Han: A Small Fish | ||
| Hung Chi: The Stewed-Pork Vendor | ||
| P. K. Leung: Not Just Another New Year's Painting | ||
| Wu Yin Ching: Garment Reading | ||
| Huang Canran: Loneliness | ||
| Chan Tak Kam: Blind Fortune-tellers | ||
| P. K. Leung: Bittermelon | ||
| Fan Sin Piu: Afternoon Anxieties | ||
| Liu Wai Tong: To a Young Lady in an MTR Train | ||
| Lee Ying Ho: No Exit | ||
| 10. All are Written unto Me | ||
| Huang Canran: 'Who am I?' | ||
| Heather Tu: The Witch's Song | ||
| Yip Fai: The Nut in a Drawer | ||
| Heather Tu: Denial of the Flesh | ||
| Xu Su: Giving up Smoking | ||
| Zhao Tao: My Life with Mirrors | ||
| Gu Cangwu: On the Tower | ||
| Ho Fuk Yan: Letter Writing | ||
| Wong Leung Wo: Still Unborn | ||
| Notes on Authors | ||
| Notes on Translators | ||
Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.