| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. xxi |
| Biographical Sketches | p. xxix |
| Fiction, 1918-1949 | |
| Preface to the First Collection of Short Stories, Call to Aims | p. 3 |
| A Madman's Diary | p. 8 |
| Kong Yiji | p. 17 |
| A Posthumous Son | p. 22 |
| Sinking | p. 31 |
| Spring Silkworms | p. 56 |
| An Old and Established Name | p. 74 |
| Xiaoxiao | p. 82 |
| The Night of Midautumn Festival | p. 95 |
| The Steelyard | p. 103 |
| Dog | p. 110 |
| One Evening in the Rainy Season | p. 116 |
| Midautumn Festival | p. 125 |
| When I Was in Xia Village | p. 132 |
| Young Master Gets His Tonic | p. 147 |
| Hands | p. 161 |
| Sealed Off | p. 174 |
| The Doctor's Mother | p. 184 |
| Fiction, 1949-1976 | |
| A Visit to His Excellency: A Five-Minute Movie | p. 197 |
| My Kid Brother Kangxiong | p. 204 |
| Winter Nights | p. 210 |
| The Fish | p. 324 |
| An Oxcart for a Dowry | p. 232 |
| Yan'an Seeds | p. 251 |
| Curvaceous Dolls | p. 262 |
| Fiction Since 1976 | |
| Wrong Number | p. 277 |
| A Tail | p. 280 |
| Small-Hands Chen | p. 282 |
| Tales of New Cathay | p. 285 |
| Disputatiasis | p. 285 |
| The Upholder of Unity | p. 286 |
| Little Little Little Little Little... | p. 287 |
| Right to the Heart of the Matter | p. 287 |
| The Tunnel | p. 289 |
| A Woman Like Me | p. 303 |
| Tales of Taipei | p. 314 |
| A Lover's Ear | p. 314 |
| Empty Seat | p. 315 |
| Cat | p. 317 |
| Not Seen | p. 318 |
| Electing a Thief | p. 321 |
| Hut on the Mountain | p. 325 |
| The Accident | p. 529 |
| The Leader's Demise | p. 337 |
| A Story | p. 349 |
| Dogshit Food | p. 366 |
| Iron Child | p. 379 |
| Fin de Siecle Splendor | p. 388 |
| Lucky Worries About His Country | p. 403 |
| Redeeming a Painting | p. 417 |
| Octday | p. 429 |
| On the Road at Eighteen | p. 439 |
| Escape | p. 445 |
| Letters from Montmarte | p. 455 |
| Granny | p. 462 |
| Fish! | p. 470 |
| Born at the wrong time | p. 480 |
| Poetry, 1918-1949 | |
| Second Farewell to Cambridge | p. 499 |
| Love's Inspiration | p. 500 |
| Chance | p. 501 |
| Dead Water | p. 502 |
| One Sentence | p. 503 |
| Prayer | p. 503 |
| Woman Abandoned | p. 505 |
| Never to Return | p. 506 |
| Sonnet 2 | p. 508 |
| Sonnet 4 | p. 509 |
| Sonnet 27 | p. 509 |
| Rainy Alley | p. 510 |
| Written on a Prison Wall | p. 511 |
| With My Injured Hand | p. 512 |
| A Buddhist Monk | p. 513 |
| A Round Treasure-Box | p. 514 |
| Feverish Night | p. 514 |
| Snow Falls on China's Land | p. 516 |
| The North | p. 518 |
| Prophecy | p. 522 |
| Thinking of a Friend at Year's End | p. 523 |
| Autumn | p. 524 |
| A Glance | p. 525 |
| The Lotus Flower | p. 526 |
| Poetry, 1949-1976 | |
| Spring Dancing | p. 529 |
| A Wolf | p. 530 |
| Self | p. 531 |
| Song of Wisdom | p. 532 |
| Kingdom of Solitude | p. 533 |
| Under the Bodhi Tree | p. 534 |
| If There's a War Raging Afar | p. 535 |
| Nostalgia | p. 536 |
| The White Jade Bitter Gourd | p. 536 |
| A Group of Urban Youths Is on Its Way | p. 538 |
| Beyond the Fog | p. 540 |
| City: Saigon, 1967 | p. 541 |
| Following the Sound of Rain into the Mountains: No Rain | p. 541 |
| Salt | p. 543 |
| Paris | p. 544 |
| The Colonel | p. 545 |
| Pagoda | p. 546 |
| Grenz-Taverne | p. 547 |
| Clear and Bright: In the Grave | p. 547 |
| Moth | p. 548 |
| Vagabond | p. 549 |
| The River's Fancy | p. 550 |
| The Pursuit | p. 551 |
| The Story of the Stone | p. 553 |
| Debate on Rugged Mountain | p. 555 |
| Song of Gray Hair | p. 557 |
| After the Snow | p. 558 |
| Geometry: River Goddess | p. 559 |
| The Deluded Dream | p. 561 |
| Fire on the Sea Floor | p. 562 |
| Our Will to Settle Here Will Never Fail | p. 563 |
| Poetry Since 1976 | |
| Autumn Meditation | p. 567 |
| Earl Grey | p. 569 |
| A Night Prayer | p. 570 |
| When You Are Naked, You Have Everything | p. 571 |
| Six Ways of Eating Watermelons | p. 575 |
| Declaration | p. 576 |
| Resume | p. 577 |
| Another Legend | p. 578 |
| When You Walk Past My Window | p. 579 |
| A Roadside Encounter | p. 580 |
| Assembly Line | p. 580 |
| The Cry of a Generation | p. 581 |
| When We Finally Turn Fifty | p. 583 |
| Surgery Ward | p. 584 |
| The Cat Who Walks Through the Wall | p. 585 |
| To a Nine-Year-Old Girl Killed in the Massacre | p. 586 |
| The Dead in Exile | p. 587 |
| An Ending | p. 589 |
| Curriculum Vitae | p. 590 |
| Madwoman | p. 591 |
| This life cage | p. 594 |
| Containment | p. 595 |
| The Ripest Rankest Juiciest Summer Ever | p. 596 |
| Continuing Our Discussion of Boredom and Ennui | p. 598 |
| L'Empire a la Fin de la Decadence | p. 600 |
| Obdurate | p. 601 |
| Hooves of memories | p. 602 |
| Lobsters | p. 603 |
| Spring 2001, Unreachable Civilization | p. 605 |
| Essays, 1918-1949 | |
| Excerpts from Wild Grass | p. 609 |
| Epigraph | p. 609 |
| Autumn Night | p. 610 |
| Hope | p. 611 |
| The Evolution of the Male Sex | p. 613 |
| In Praise of Mutes | p. 616 |
| The Aging of Ghosts | p. 620 |
| Reading on the Toilet | p. 627 |
| My Turn at Quitting Smoking | p. 632 |
| The Monks of Hangzhou | p. 637 |
| Prose Selections | p. 641 |
| Haste | p. 641 |
| Spring | p. 642 |
| The Silhouette of His Back | p. 643 |
| The Moonlit Lotus Pond | p. 645 |
| Bombs in Yishan | p. 649 |
| Sickness | p. 655 |
| Haircuts | p. 659 |
| Essays, 1949-1976 | |
| On Time | p. 665 |
| Snow | p. 669 |
| Thus Friends Absent Speak | p. 673 |
| Nineteen Seventy-two | p. 677 |
| Essays Since 1976 | |
| Remembering Xiao Shan | p. 685 |
| Living Hell (from her memoirs) | p. 697 |
| A Bizarre Kind of Robbery | p. 704 |
| Salute | p. 707 |
| A Father and Son's Boat for the Black Current | p. 715 |
| Permissions | p. 727 |
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