Renditions no. 91 (Spring 2019)
Renditions no. 91 (Spring 2019)
Renditions no. 91 is a general issue featuring a diversity of works originally written in the twentieth century. We begin with a special section devoted to seven relatively little-known short pieces by the extraordinary and tragically short-lived writer Xiao Hong 蕭紅, elegantly rendered by the distinguished translator Howard Goldblatt. Other features comprise Zhu Xiang’s 朱湘 long satirical poem ‘The Cat’s Admonition’ 貓誥, a compact and clever allegory of the disposition of Chinese intellectuals in the immediate post–May Fourth era; ‘The Man from Greece’ 希臘人 by Lin Cantian 林參天, one of our first ventures into publishing translations of literature written in Chinese in South-east Asia; and ‘The Photograph’ 一張照片 by Yeh Hsia-Ti 葉霞翟, the love story of the author and the brilliant Nationalist general Hu Zongnan 胡宗南.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Editor’s Page — 5
Special Section
Xiao Hong Vague Expectations: Xiao Hong Miscellany: excerpts Translated by Howard Goldblatt — 7
Abandoned Infant — 11
Little Six — 27
In Tokyo — 31
A Rail Line Is Completed — 35
Kaji and Ikeda — 41
The Child’s Speech — 49
The Garden Out Back — 55
Zhu Xiang The Cat’s Admonition Translated by Wilt L. Idema — 75
Lin Cantian The Man from Greece Translated by Cheow Thia Chan — 99
Yeh Hsia-Ti A Photograph Translated by Esther Hu — 113
Book Notices — 131
Notes on Authors — 133
Notes on Contributors — 134
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