Marvels of a Floating City Lao Shê's (1899–1966) best known

Lao Shê's (1899–1966) best known novel

and to write for himself

and Li Yu's discourse on food and doctoring

sharp reporting exposes contemporary social problems

The Jesuit translators studied include Matteo Ricci

Marvels of a Floating City Lao Shê's (1899–1966) best knownBy Xi Xi Edited by Eva Hung 1999, 1997 142 pages ISBN 962 7255 18 1 Xi Xi, Hong Kong's foremost fiction writer, eloquently conveys the mood of the city during the 1980s in this collection of short stories. In the first half of the decade, the Chinese and British governments negotiated Hong Kong's fate, occasioning intense soul searching and close scrutiny of their society among the general population. The old and the new, the real and the fantastic,