Taipei People

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Taipei People (Traditional Chinese: 臺北人 or 台北人; Simplified Chinese: 台北人; pinyin: Táiběi rén) is a collection of 14 short stories written by Pai Hsien-yung in the 1960s, published in 1971. The length and art of each story is different, but all these short stories are about people who came from Mainland China to Taiwan in the 1950s, and about their life in Taipei. Some of the stories were also published in Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream (1968).

The collection has been translated into English and other languages. The stories have been also reworked to dramas in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and a movie in Taiwan.

[edit] Short Stories Collected

• The Eternal Snow Beauty (永遠的尹雪豔)
• A Touch of Green (一把青)
• New Year's Eve (歲除)
• The Last Night of Taipan Chin (金大班的最後一夜)
• A Sea of Blood-red Azaleas (那片血一般紅的杜鵑花)
• Ode to Bygone Days (思舊賦)
• The Dirge of Liang Fu (梁父吟)
• Love's Lone Flower (孤戀花)
• Glory's by Blossom Bridge (花橋榮記)
• Autumn Reveries (秋思)
• A Sky Full of Bright, Twinkling Stars (滿天裏亮晶晶的星星)
• Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream (遊園驚夢)
• Winter Night (冬夜)
• State Funeral (國葬)

[edit] References

• Taipei People, written by Pai Hsien-yung, translated into English by Pai Hsien-yung and Yeh Pei-Shia, ISBN 957-8265-69-7