The Cockroach and other stories
The Cockroach and other stories
By Liu Yichang
Translated by D. E. Pollard
1996
xi + 151 pages
ISBN 962-7255-15-7
Liu Yichang, who has devoted the best part of his career to serving the cause of literature in Hong Kong, is represented in this collection of his fiction by stories all set in Hong Kong. If looking into other people's lives is one of a reader's chief interests in fiction, it is one that Liu as a writer shares and fully caters for. These pages tell us much about how ordinary people found pain and pleasure in the Hong Kong of recent decades. At the same time they reflect the author's occupation with the art of fiction in that the stories are all shaped differently, and entertain in the way they are told.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface — vii
The Cockroach — 1
Wrong Number — 44
Bust-up — 47
Indecision — 53
Chain — 144
Review(s)
Review(s)
'A deep thinker, Liu has allowed his views on philosophy to filter into his work.'
—South China Morning Post
'These stories … capture photographically the endlessly fascinating life of a city in constant flux.'
—World Literature Today
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AUTHOR(s)
Liu Yichang was born and brought up in Shanghai, graduating from St John's University in 1941. He took up journalism in the wartime capital of Chungking, and that remained his profession after his remove to Hong Kong in 1948 until his retirement in 1991. He still edits the prestigious Hong Kong Literature monthly, which he founded in 1985.
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EDITOR(s)
D.E. Pollard, who edited this collection, was Professor of Chinese at London University before he joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1989.