pieces by Lusin, together with a biographical note by Snow himself and a survey of contemporary Chinese literature by Nym Wales. Kyn's volume first appeared in French in 1929 and contains three stories by Lusin. Of the translations included in the present volume, "The Divorce" and "The Widow" appear also in Snow's anthology, while "Ah Q" and "My Native Health" are also found in Kyn's selection.
For the convenience of those who wish to read more of Lusin, the following translations are suggested: "Medicine," "A Little Incident," "Kung I-chi" (Snow, in Living China); "Kung I-chi" (Kyn, in The Tragedy of Ah Qui); "The Dawn" (Wang, in The Far Eastern Magazine, New York, March, 1940); "Warning to the Populace," "Professor Kao," "A Happy Family" (Wang, in The China Journal, Shanghai, June, July, August, 1940, respectively); "Dragon Boat Festival" (anonymously translated, in People's Tribune, Shanghai, March 1, 1936); and "Looking Back to the Past" (Feng Yu-sing, in T'ien Hsia Monthly, Shanghai, February, 1938).
Chi-Chen Wang
Columbia University
April 15, 1941
