21st Century Chinese Literature—Points of Departure&Wang Meng 1
Miniature Literary Sketches of Chinese People&Bing Feng 5
The Recruit&Liang Xiaosheng 16
My Classmate Zhou&Ah Cheng 21
Purple Human Outline&Bi Shumin 27
Meddlesome Man at His Sister's Funeral&Chen Jiangong 31
Please Stay&Liu Xinwu 34
Mailbox&Wang Meng 39
Caregivers&Jiang Zilong 42
How Butterflies Are Drawn to Flowers&Teng Gang 45
Love in 1999&Bei Bei 51
The Example&Qin Yong 55
The Door Bell&An Yong 59
The Carpet&Hang Ying 63
Time&Chen Yu 67
Sworn Buddies&Ye Yanbin 72
Can't See Mama's Shoes&Ai Xin 76
A Hairclip under the Pillow&Guan Hong 81
Necessity&Zhou Daxin 85
Receiving a Double Blessing&Fang Yingwen 88
Stepmother Keeps Him from Home&Hong Ke 91
One Fallen Leaf&Xu Xing 95
Sweet and Sour Love&Hai Fei 98
A Benefactor&Hu Yan 101
Don't Break a Heart of Gold&He Chang'an 105
Father's Home Waiting for Me&Lin Xi 109
Will You Kiss Me Too?&Li Shunyi 112
The Exam Question&Liu Minyan 115
Annoying Hearing Aids&He Baoguo 118
The Sheepskin Coat&Sun Fangyou 121
Lottery,Lottery&Liu Jing 125
"N"Ways to Eat a Fish&Yi Nong 130
Bride Duanmi&Liu Liying 135
Man with a Death Wish&Cai Cheng 140
Treating for Dinner&Shi Zhongliang 144
Walking out of the Desert&Shen Hong 147
The Billionaire's Secret&Liu Sha 151
Please Divorce&Jiang Huiyan 155
The Seductive Kill&Liu Wanli 160
Simple Minded&Li Fuliang 164
Proof of Humanity&Yu Qing 167
The Dog-skin Mattress&Wang Kuishan 171
Alternative Tests&Song Yanchun 174
Disappearing Flurries&Li Zisheng 177
Mahogany Firewood&Cai Jieqing 181
Mean Virtual Romance&Zhu Yaohua 184
Holding Your Hand Tightly&Zhong Yue 188
Mama Wants to Be Your Example&Liu Xin 192
July 28th,1976&Yuan Bingfa 197
Steamed Buns in a Virtual Era&Wuye Liangmin 201
Big Snow&Guo Xuerong 204
A Red Mane Pony&Shen Ping 208
Seventh Sister-in-Law Was My Neighbor&Huang Wen 211
Reforming Our Organs&Zhu Hong 214
Truth&Wang Wei 218
A Midnight Scare&Li Zhanbui 223
The Neighbor's Scale&Fang Guanqing 226
The Super Project Designer&Ru Rongxing 229
A Story of a Man and a Woman&Zhou Rencong 232
My Wife Asks to Be My Mistress&Tian Xiaoyong 236
A Simple Case of Murder&Lu Weiyun 240
My E-Business&Geng Yuan 243
Divorce&Deng Hongwei 249
The Tangjiasi Umbrella&Gao Hong 254
The Good Ox&Huang Jianguo 260
The Casual Remark&Shen Zulian 263
Cleanliness&Deng Shiling 266
Lunar Eclipse&Wang Wang 269
After Growing up We'll All Marry You&Liu Zhixue 275
A Letter from a Son&Xiang Yuting 280
Shadows&Song Ziping 284
Falling Out&He Baiyuan 289
Repayment&Wang Qionghua 293
The Gap&Han Changyuan 298
The Dead Parrot&Hai Xingxing 301
Broken Locks&Zhu Shuyuan 304
Wild Boasting&Xu Guojiang 308
Case in point&Zheng Junfu 312
The Logic of Rich and Poor&Wei Jinshu 316
Xiao Yi's Fate&Guo Yuesheng 319
The Last Night&Zeng Ying 322
Crystal&Shen Jian 326
Where Are You,Buddy?&Liu Jianchao 330
Conditions&Wen Qingli 335
You Don't Look Like a County Magistrate&Li Qixiang 339
A Small Town Unable to Keep Its Good Doctors&Ma Baoshan 342
Vis-à-vis Flights&Wei Yonggui 346
Meeting a Female Classmate on the Way&Lu Weiping 350
Two Physiology Classes&Wu Chengming 353
Renting a Son for New Year's Eve&Zong Lihua 357