Black Walls and other stories ‘Keen observations and an extraordinary

‘Keen observations and an extraordinary writing style add considerably to [its] vividness and beauty

ISBN 962-7255-04-1

This issue encapsulates the journal’s work in the last half-century and celebrates its enduring role in literary communication between the East and West

Translated by Mary M

one of the most energetic and strong-willed of China's rulers

Black Walls and other stories ‘Keen observations and an extraordinaryBy Liu Xinwu Edited by Don J. Cohn with an introduction by Geremie Barm 1990 xiii + 202 pages ISBN 962 7255 06 8 Liu is attracted in his fiction to the study of modern Peking Man, and this volume reflects some of his faces. At times the works contained herein entertain, they frequently educate or elucidate, and more often than not they tell us as much about their author as the unsettled and changing society which he depicts. These stories reveal his