Writings in English by Wu Ningkun

Memoir

A Single Tear, A Family’s Persecution, Suffering, Love and Endurance, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1993; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993. Japanese edition, Tokyo, 1993; Swedish edition, Stockholm,1994; Korean edition, Seoul, 1995.

 Prose

1.   Making Friends with English, The World of English, Beijing, 1983.
2. Western Literature in China, The 1982/1983 China Official Annual Report ( China Yearbook), 1984 Hong Kong.
3. From Half-Step Bridge to Cambridge, The Cambridge Review,
4. June 1986; Reprinted with Family Photos, The Nexus, Beijing, May 1988.
5. William Empson Remembered, The Critical Quarterly, UK, June 1987; The Cambridge Review, June 1988; The World of English, Beijing, 1988.
6. The Soul of Cambridge, The World of English, Beijing 1987; A longer version, The Nexus, Beijing, 1991.
7. A Phoenix Reborn: Shen Congwen Remembered, The World of English , Beijing, May 1989; The Nexus, Beijing, Summer/1989.
8. Wuthering Heights : Love as Suffering, The World of English, Beijing, 1989.
9. The Chimes of Solitude, The World of English, Beijing, October 1991.
10. Introduction to Standpoints, Writings in Honor of Charles Klingler, Edited by Charles Boebel, Manchester Colleg, IN.1994.
11. Introduction to The Politics of My Heart by William Slaughter, Pleasure Boat Studio, Port Angeles, WA, 1996
12. Dong Leshan and 1984, The World of English, Beijing, March 1999.
13. A China Where Liquor Is King, Book Review, The San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, June 4, 2000.
14. Literary Warning Bell, A Book Review of China’s Ecological Winter by Zheng Yi, China Rights Forum, No.4, 2002.
15. A Book Review of Ha Jin’s The Crazed, China Rights Forum, No.4, 2003.
16. America Rediscovered, Full Circle 24, Guild Press, Robbinsdale, 2003
17. Reminiscences of a Precarious Life: From Yangzhou to Reston, Chinese Experiences. Studying in America: Eighty Years of Cross Cultural Learning, III, Edited by Dr. Li Yu-ning, Outer Sky Press, New York, 2003.

Verse

1. Parting, The World of English, Beijing, 1989; Tolo Lights, Shaw College, Hong Kong, 1994. (A choral composition by Dr. Debora DeWitt based on the poem premiered at the Carnegie Hall on Memorial Day 2001 as part of a program presented by the Manchester College choir.)
2. Advice to a Poet, Tolo Lights, Shaw College, Hong Kong, 1994.
3. The Dead Do Not Forget, Full Circle 12, Guild Press, Robbinsdale, 1991; Tolo Lights, Shaw College, Hong Kong, 1994.
4. Forget Me, Mama!, The Eastern Express, Hong Kong, June 4, 1994. (Song-cycle for a Bereaved Mother by Dr. Debora DeWitt, Professor of Music at Manchester College, a composition based on the poem, premiered at the annual Tolo Lights Poetry and Music Evening at Shaw College in Hong Kong on March 29, 1995 under the composer’s personal direction.)
5. Four Seasons, For the late John F. Young, Full Circle16, Guild Press, Robbinsdale, 1995.
6. Xu Mengxiong: A Legend, Full Circle18, Guild Press, Robbinsdale, 1997.
7. Pilgrim’s Progress of Dong Leshan, Full Circle 20, Guild Press, Robbinsdale, 1999.
8. Requiem, for Mu Dan, Full Circle 24, Guild Press, Robbinsdale, 2003.

Translation

ZHAO, Ziyang Apologia at the Fourth Plenum of the Thirteenth Central Committee of the CCP, June 1989. (Translated in collaboration with the Eastern Express Editor Robert Delfs),Eastern Express, Hong Kong, June 6-8, 1994.

Last Updated: August 16, 2004