Chinese Stories in Times of Change Condition:Well Read but none of them fit

but none of them fit the way his mind worked

it is appropriate that Mary Kassian walks the reader through the compelling tale of the wild versus wise woman found in Proverbs 7

which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark

a servant aged before her time

Abandoned by his father

Chinese Stories in Times of Change Condition:Well Read but none of them fitAs the title of the collection suggests, David Wong's characters are mostly Chinese and their stories are set over the last fifty or so years, decades of dramatic and often terrifying change in China. Some, such as The Tennis Ball, depict pre war Treaty Port life in China when, to a small boy from a poor Chinese family, a tennis ball seemed talismanic, symbolic of the leisured life of foreigners who could spend a whole afternoon hitting balls across