Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Author’S Preface to the 1983 Editions of 23
6. Written in the Margins of Life
7. Dedication 27
8. Acknowledgments 29
9. Preface 31
10. The Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu 33
11. Windows 39
12. On Happiness 43
13. On Laughter 47
14. Eating 50
15. Reading Aesop’S Fables 54
16. On Moral Instruction 58
17. A Prejudice 62
18. Explaining Literary Blindness 66
19. On Writers 70
20. Notes 75
21. Human, Beast, Ghost
22. First Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition 91
23. Second Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition 92
24. God’S Dream 93
25. Cat 107
26. Inspiration 153
27. Souvenir 177
28. Notes 205
29. Editions 217
30. Further Reading in English 219
31. Translators 221