Sound and silence: my experience with China and literature

Translator's introduction / Carlos Rojas

Author's note

He who has been selected by heaven and life to appreciate darkness

National amnesia and literary memory

The abjection of alt China and its literature

The wild child that is American literature

My thoughts on literary censorship and controversy

My literary review book

The distinctiveness of writing in China

Fear and betrayal have accompanied me throughout my life

Writing under a sky of concentrated power and relative laxity

Living without dignity, but writing with honor

My ideal Is simply to write a novel that I think is good

A village's China and literature

Afterword: Ripping open the dreamscape.