No. 26 (Autumn 1986)
| Contents | |
| 4 | EDITOR'S PAGE |
| ART | |
| 11 | HUANG YONGYU: Selections from A Can of Worms (translated by Geremie Barmé) |
| ESSAYS | |
| 68 | ZHOU ZUOREN: Seven Essays (translated by D.E. Pollard, Don J. Cohn & Richard Rigby) |
| The Ageing of Ghosts In Praise of Mutes On "Passing the Itch" Reading on the Toilet Japan and China The Chinese National Character — A Japanese View Japan Re-encountered | |
| FICTION | |
| 7 | WAN ZHI: The Clock (translated by Bonnie S. McDougall & Kam Louie) |
| 22 | XINGSHI HENGYAN: How Hailing of the Jurchens was Destroyed through Unbridled Lust (translated by Copal Sukhu) |
| POETRY | |
| 51 | LU YOU: 31 Quatrains (translated by C.H. Kwock & V. McHugh) |
| SPECIAL SECTION ON LU XUN | |
| 108 | Toward a Refutation of the Voices of Evil (translated by J.E. Kowallis) |
| 120 | The World of Lu Xun (Paintings by Qiu Sha & Wang Weijun) |
| 125 | Confucius in Modern China (translated by D.E. Pollard) |
| 132 | Selected Classical Poems (translated by J.E. Kowallis) |
| 151 | Wild Grass (translated by Ng Mau-sang) |
| 166 | Notes on Contributors |