7. The Mud Boot Wedding and Other Ethnic Minority Stories

 

This volume includes eleven stories such as The Return of Xiabazi by Lu Yiping, The Remote Hot Spring by A Lai, Girl, Wife, Daughter-in-law by Ma Jinlian, Golden Ranges by Sana (Daur) and Lake Hanas by Hong Ke (Kazakh). As with a lush forest of diverse foliage, our world embraces unparalleled complexity and wonder, through the written words of the branches, shadows and imagined worlds of each ethnic group.

 

 

8. One Fallen Leaf and More Miniature Stories

 

This volume includes eighty-eight stories such as Mailbox by Wang Meng, The recruit by Liang Xiaosheng, Purple Human Outline by Bi Shumin and Meddlesome Man at His Sister's Funeral by Chen Jiangong. Great figures and ordinary citizens alike with their pens have forged succinct and humorous micro-reflections of the larger picture of life, for readers to delight in and savor.