The Best China：Essays from Hong Kong

v | Series Editor’s Preface
ix | Acknowledgements
xi | Translations
xv | Introduction
I
Forerunners
3 | Sir John Francis Davis, ‘The Poetry of the Chinese’
11 | Karl Gützlaff, ‘Nymphs of Perfect Beauty’
25 | James Legge, ‘The Colony of Hongkong: Reminiscences of a Long Residence in the East’
31 | Wang Tao, ‘On James Legge & Hong Kong’
43 | Johannes Nacken, ‘Chinese Street-Cries of Hongkong’
55 | E. J. Eitel, ‘Hongkong: Haven of Refuge, Home of the Free’
59 | James Dyer Ball, ‘The Bamboo’
67 | Cecil Clementi, ‘The Singsong Girls of Canton’
91 | Sun Yat-sen, ‘I Got My Ideas in Hong Kong’
II
More Recent Times
99 | Liu Ts’un-yan, ‘Cutting Grass’
115 | Liu Ts’un-yan, ‘A Mongol Bannerman in Hong Kong’
121 | Anthony C. Yu, ‘Days of 15 Shelley Street’
137 | Stephen C. Soong, ‘Somerset Maugham and My Father’
169 | Louis Cha, ‘That Little Brat Trinket’
189 | Margaret Ng, ‘The Many Faces of Louis Cha’
203 | Lee Yee, ‘Going in Opposite Directions: Louis Cha and Me’
209 | Jimmy Lai, ‘Freedom and Information’
221 | Lee Yee, ‘Back in the Year 1984’
229 | Liu Yichang, ‘This Time I Just Want to Entertain Myself—Preface to The Drunkard’
235 | David Hawkes, ‘Memories of Wong Siu-kit’
241 | Timothy Mo, ‘Fighting Their Writing: The Unholy Lingo of RLS and Kung Fu Tse’
267 | Leung Ping-kwan, ‘The Walled City of Kowloon’
271 | Leung Ping-kwan, ‘The Sorrows of Lan Kwai Fong’
275 | Leo Ou-fan Lee, ‘A Conversation with Mahler in Paradise’
291 | Xi Xi, ‘The Drawer’
297 | San Su, ‘Paying One’s Last Respects Is Both a Source of Anguish for the Living and an Insult to the Dead’
301 | Ha Gong, ‘Getting High’ and Other Essays
315 | Xiao Si, ‘Loneliness among the Mountain Flowers—Xiao Hong in Hong Kong’
323 | Tung Chiao, ‘Raising the Bamboo Curtain’ and Other Essays
335 | Chip Tsao, ‘Memento Mori’