Homecoming? and other stories The works collected here include

The works collected here include essays

Selected and translated by Shih Shun Liu

took a tragic turn

Liu is attracted in his fiction to the study of modern Peking Man

excerpts from the 19th-century novel The Strange Case of Nine Murders by Wu Woyao

Homecoming? and other stories The works collected here includeBy Han Shaogong Translated by Martha Cheung 1992 xxi + 161 pages ISBN 962 7255 13 0 The stories collected here mix dream and reality, fact and fiction. A fascinating blend of symbolism, allegory and naturalism, they represent Han's best work to date. In a desperate attempt to make sense of an often baffling or absurd reality, he examines the questions of guilt, identity and sanity, and explores the factors which have led to China's cultural