Black Walls and other stories As a pioneer of the

As a pioneer of the local style that captured the imagination of the Taiwan literary scene in the 1970s

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

Translated by Brian Holton

The second half of the Nineteenth Century saw the emergence of a new consciousness in Chinese society

xxxviii + 342 pages

Black Walls and other stories As a pioneer of theBy 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