Little Bottles
Philippa Tristram, 22 February 1990
The Miraculous Pigtail
by Feng Jicai.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 312 pp., September 1988,0 8351 2050 3 Show More
by Feng Jicai.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 312 pp., September 1988,
Mimosa
by Zhang Xianliang.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 170 pp., January 1987,0 8351 1336 1 Show More
by Zhang Xianliang.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 170 pp., January 1987,
Dialogues in Paradise
by Can Xue, translated by Ronald Jansson.
Northwestern, 173 pp., $17.95, June 1989,0 8101 0830 5 Show More
by Can Xue, translated by Ronald Jansson.
Northwestern, 173 pp., $17.95, June 1989,
The Broken Betrothal
by Gao Xiaosheng.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 218 pp., December 1987,0 8351 2051 1 Show More
by Gao Xiaosheng.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 218 pp., December 1987,
At Middle Age
by Shen Rong.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 366 pp., December 1987,0 8351 1609 3 Show More
by Shen Rong.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 366 pp., December 1987,
Snuff-Bottles, and Other Stories
by Deng Youmei.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 220 pp., January 1987,0 8351 1607 7 Show More
by Deng Youmei.
Chinese Literature Press, Beijing, 220 pp., January 1987,
“... In the days of the Boxer Rebellion, when Chinese wore pigtails and exposure to foreign values was compulsory, they knew that Westerners were Chinese upside-down. As Yang remarks in The Miraculous Pigtail, which is set in that period: ‘Chinese shave their heads, foreigners their faces; Chinese write from right to left, foreigners from left to right; Chinese call the compass the “needle for fixing the south”, foreigners call it the “needle which points north”; Chinese have their tea-cup lids on top, foreigners have their, tea-cup lids underneath ... ”
