Black Walls and other stories and amply illustrated with Chinese

and amply illustrated with Chinese landscape paintings

the first overlord to have seized overarching power during the breakdown of order

By Li Boyuan

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

the authors extend their explorations to cover the contexts within which the translators worked from different perspectives

Black Walls and other stories and amply illustrated with ChineseBy 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