Publications

Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel. Stanford UP, c. 2007.  ix + 289 p. “Outstanding Academic Title”—Choice.

Chinese Justice, the Fiction:  Law and Literature in Modern China.  Stanford UP, 2000. 497 p., in hard covers and paperback.  “Outstanding Academic Title”—Choice.

Shen Congwen bixia de Zhongguo shehui yu wenhua (Shen Congwen's Vision of Chinese Society and Culture, translation of Ph.D. thesis, opening chapters abridged). Yu Jianhua and Shao Huaqiang, tr. Shanghai:  East China Normal UP, 1994.  319 p.

The Odyssey of Shen Congwen. Stanford UP, 1987. 464 p. An Asiaweek Book of the Year. In Chinese, (1) Shen Congwen zhuan. Fu Jiaqin, tr. Beijing: Shishi P, 1990, 1991. (2) Fuller version, Changsha: Hunan Wenyi P, 1992, 1993. 435 p. (3) Taiwan ed., Taibei: Youshi P, 1995. (4) Odyssey's notes rewritten in anecdotal form as Shen Congwen gushi (Stories about Shen Congwen). Beijing: Zhongguo Youyi P, 1993. (5) 3rd PRC ed., Fenghuang zhi zi: Shen Congwen zhuan (Son of Fenghuang: Biography of Shen Congwen). Zhongguo Youyi P, 2000. 458 p. (6) 4th PRC ed., Shen Congwen zhuan. Beijing: Guoji wenhua P, 2005. 308p.

(Trans. & annot.) Shen Congwen. Border Town. HarperCollins, 2009. xi + 169 p. Paperback.

(Ed. & main trans.)  Imperfect Paradise: Stories by Shen Congwen. U of Hawaii P, 1995. 537  p., hard covers and paperback.  Review by Jonathan Spence, with magazine cover art reflecting the book, (Sun.) N. Y. Times Book Review, Dec. 17, 1995. Selected translations by Kinkley, with Chinese originals facing, reprinted in Selected Short Stories of Shen Congwen. Hong Kong: Chinese UP, 2004, with new introduction, pp. viii-xxxvii.

(Trans.)  Hsiao Ch'ien.  Traveller Without a Map.  London:  Hutchinson (Random House), 1990. American ed., Stanford UP, 1993.  276 p., in hard covers and paperback.

(Co ed., with Helmut Martin)  Modern Chinese Writers:  Self Portrayals. M. E. Sharpe, 1992. 424 p., in hard covers and paperback.

(Ed. & int.) Chen Xuezhao. Surviving the Storm: A Memoir. M. E. Sharpe, 1990. xvi + 147  p.

(Ed. Chinese section, special China issue)  Fiction 8.2 3 (1987).  98 p.

(Ed.)  After Mao:  Chinese Literature and Society, 1978 1981.  Harvard Council on East Asian   Studies,1985; 2nd printing Harvard UP, 1990.  345 p.  Inaugural volume of the Harvard Contemporary China Series.

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