Volume 53, Number 18 · November 16, 2006

Chinese Shadows

By Perry Link
Love in a Fallen City
by Eileen Chang,translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang

New York Review Books, 321 pp., $14.95 (paper)

Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts
edited by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, and Howard Goldblatt

Columbia University Press, 239 pp., $24.50

The Banquet Bug
by Geling Yan

Hyperion East, 276 pp., $24.95

Love and Revolution: A Novel about Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen
by Ping Lu, translated from the Chinese by Nancy Du

Columbia University Press, 167 pp., $24.50

In 1920 a young Chinese poet named Guo Moruo published a poem called 'The Sky Dog,' which begins:



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