Ah Q AND OTHERS
TRANSLATED BY CHI-CHEN WANG
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS • NEW YORK
1941
Copyright 1941
Columbia University Press, New York
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MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO MY BROTHER CHI-KUEH
born 1907 and killed in the bombing of Chungking in the spring of 1940, just as a new Road to Life opened up before him with its promise of the freedom and independence to which he was stranger all his life, I dedicate these translations of Lusin whom we both admired above all other Chinese writers, ancient and modern, and who did more than any one else to clear the Road to Life of the weeds of tradition and of the traps and pitfalls that man-eating men set for the young, the unwary, and the helpless.
INTRODUCTION, BY CHI-CHEN WANG | vii | |
MY NATIVE HEATH | 3 | |
THE CAKE OF SOAP | 16 | |
THE DIVORCE | 31 | |
REUNION IN A RESTAURANT | 45 | |
THE STORY OF HAIR | 59 | |
CLOUD OVER LUCHEN | 65 | |
OUR STORY OF AH Q | 77 | |
A HERMIT AT LARGE | 130 | |
REMORSE | 158 | |
THE WIDOW | 184 | |
THE DIARY OF A MADMAN | 205 |
Ah Q AND OTHERS
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