The Great Wall
Contents
Dedication
Prelude
Upon
our Arrival
Late
Summer, 1998
No Ice in China
The People's Trains
Minor
Official
Of
Citizens and Cattle
If
Looks Could Kill
Caterwauling
Cadres
Eulogy
to the Rat in My Toilet
Shower
Day
Mine
The
Bouncing Ball
Baby
Rat
The
Long Way
My
Class Room
Loud
Speakers
Fresh
Students
The
Son of Heaven
Sounding
the Soul
Autumn,
1998
Beijing
Immemorial
Chinese
Halloween
Parasols
Night
Shades
Pink
and Red Jackets
Fire
Little
Old Girl
De`jaŽ
Vu in Class
Dungeon
Barbecue
A
Dog Hanging on the Shop Wall
It
Rained while in Class
Tiger
Guardian
A
Special Brick
Times
& Places
Winter,
1998-9
It
Snowed while in Class
Little
Red Yellow Bundles of Spun Love
Snowball
Fight
Coal
Lady
Chinese
Christmas
A
Six-Layer Day
Red
Sugar
Closet
Romantics
Any
Questions?
We
Cross the Vast Distances
Chinese
Children
Wronged
Ghost
Invisible
Chains
My
Friend, An Enemy of the People
Firecrackers
Nine
Years Old
Virgin
Moments
Spring, 1999
Pigs
to Slaughter
Thermos
Flasks
Man
on the Motorcycle
Red
Rooster
Broken
Windows
Upon
a Young Lady's Spittle
To
the Rubbish Heaped in the Corner
Reading
Aloud in Class
My
Green Bag
The
Face of Hate
The
Look of Longing
By
Candlelight
A
Prison within a Prison
The
Day the World Died
Of
Ponies and Official Cars
Countless
Chinese Faces
Wires
Red
Cedar
Billions
of Red Bricks
Trees
Sounding
the Soul, II
Summer,
1999
Shakespeare
in Class
Chanticleer
Sometimes
Alone
in a Crowd of Foreign Faces
Leaves
of Spring
The
Treetops Stretch Across
The
Grass is Browner
Dead
Rat
Among
the Cedar Trees
Market
Place
Stranger
in a Strange Land
The
Buildings
My
True Friend
My
Opened Letters
Constants
in an Ever Changing Sea
Half-True
Departure, Mid-Summer, 1999
Yesterday
Nameless
An
Endless Stream
Clouds
The
Great Wall, Revisited