2016 Vol. 5 No. 2

Table of Contents

VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2

THE NOVELLA IN CHINESE LITERATURE

• 6 Introduction, by Charles A. Laughlin with Liu Hongtao
• 8 Mountain Songs from the Heavens, by Han Shaogong 
  
• 16  “Creating the Old” in Literature, by Han Shaogong
• 19 Voice Change, by Xu Zechen
• 25 Novellas, Contemporary Chinese Literature, and My Writing, by Xu Zechen
• 30 A Flurry of Blessings, by Chi Zijian
• 36 River Water, by Chi Zijian

2015 NEWMAN PRIZE FOR CHINESE LITERATURE: CHU T’IEN-WEN

• 38 Introduction, by Ping Zhu
  The Newman Prize for Chinese Literature is hosted by the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for US-China Issues in honor of Harold J. and Ruth Newman.
• 40 Chu T’ien-wen’s Shijimo de huali: As Nominated for the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, by Margaret Hillenbrand
• 42 We All Change into Somebody Else: In Acceptance of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, by Chu T’ien-wen
• 44 Tribute to Chu T’ien-wen, by Ban Wang
• 46 Three Times: Chu T’ien-wen on Writing, Screenwriting, and New Taiwan Cinema, by Michael Berry
• 58 On Confessions, by Chu T’ien-wen
• 63 On Myths and Riddles, by Chu T’ien-wen
• WEB EXCLUSIVE: Chinese-Language Cinema Salon

THE PROSE POEMS OF YA SHI

• 70 Introduction, by Nick Admussen 
  72 The Cartoon Cat and Postmodern Poetry, by Ya Shi
  73 Adultery and Lyric Poetry, by Ya Shi
  74 Tight Corsets and the Narrativity of Poetry, by Ya Shi
  75 An Ear of Grass and Pure Poetry, by Ya Shi

FEATURED SCHOLAR: MARK BENDER

• 76 From Appalachia to Liangshan: Translation, Collaboration, and the Research of Mark Bender, by Timothy Thurston
• 81 The Art of Collaboration and the Work of Translation: An Interview with Mark Bender, by Timothy Thurston
• 88 Landscapes and Life-Forms in Cosmographic Epics from Southwest China, by Mark Bender

IN EVERY ISSUE

• 3 Editor’s Note
• 4 Contributors
• 98 Chinese Literature in Review
• 108 Pacific Bridge

THIS ISSUE’S ART: “Seductive Evolution of Animated Illuminations, 2013.” By Shih Chieh Huang. (Modification of fifteenth-century Renaissance period Murano glass chandelier. Combined with micro controller, computer cooling fans, LEDs, garbage bags, and plastic shrink wrap.) Image courtesy of the artist.