234 p. ; 21 cm.

Introduction / John Yau -- Preface / Wang Ping -- Che Qianzi -- Hand-copied Paperback -- Chen Dongdong -- Snow-Covered Sun -- Finally -- He Zhong -- The Vast Land -- When We Walked into the City -- You Come from Far Away -- The Cold Spirit of Snow -- The Last Bottle of Good Wine -- Missing the Encou...

Black Night -- Wang Jiaxin -- Iron -- Words -- Railway Station -- Wang Ping -- Syntax -- Of Flesh and Spirit -- Crossing Essex -- No Sense of Direction -- Wei Se -- From "The String of Beads, Fate" -- Tibet -- Xi Chuan -- For Haizi -- Books -- Birds -- Bats in the Twilight -- Xue Di -- Interplay --...

The Meridian Gate -- The Wheat Reaper -- To Die in a Sitting Position -- Burning the Red Soil -- The Well of Imperial Concubine Zhen -- What's in My Heart -- Old Bowl.