The Last of the Whampoa Breed: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora

Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Timeline Prologue: Faces, Bronze Faces by SUN Wei-mang ... translated by Nicholas KOSS Shore to Shore by SANG Pin-zai ... translated by Michelle WU I Wanted to Go to War by SANG Pin-zai ... translated by Nicholas KOSS The Stone Tablet at the Cove of the Loving Mother by WANG Yo-hua ... translated by Michelle WU Old Man Yang and His Woman by LU Chiang ... translated by Nancy DU 1,230 Spots by SHOW Foong ... translated by Ching-hsi PERNG Valley of Hesitation by LI Yu ... translated by Daniel J. BAUER State Funeral by PAI Hsien-yung ... translated by the author and Patia YASIN Tale of Two Strangers by YUAN Jen ... translated by Daniel J. BAUER The Last of the Whampoa Breed by TAI Wen-tsai ... translated by Michelle WU My Relatives in Hong Kong by HSIAO Sa ... translated by LOH I-cheng Spring Hope by LI Li ... translated by CHEN I-djen The Vanishing Ball by CHANG Chi-jiang ... translated by Kathy CHANG Epilogue: In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound by CHU Tien-hsin ... translated by Michelle WU