Contents
A Few Small Careful Strokes
New China Poem
How I Became a Daoist Monk
Laozi in Indiana
Climbing Tai Shan
Leave-Taking
Lines Written in China
Sittings
Gulangyu
Poem with Birds and Clocks
Chinese Remedies
Death in China
Walking the Corpse
How I Got My Chinese Name
Hungry Ghosts
Calligraphy Lesson
The Hard Work of Memory
Toward a Border Crossing
Street Life / Street Death
Chinese Bicycle Poem
Beijing Bird Men
What Chinese Men Have to Sing About
Reporting from Beijing
Men Who Washed Their Ears
Where Confucius Is
Professor Xu / Madame Bovary / Sparrow War
Sentences for Jiang Qing
Woman on the Bridge
Walking Backwards in Beijing
Until No Stone is Left
Notes
Pronunciation Guide