An award-winning author from China presents 13 tales about the sorrows, joys and constants of today's China, including the story of an awkward youth who uses the perks of his government to court two women and a couple who toils in factories only to learn that their son has been wasting their money.

Translation of: Huanghun li de nanhai.

Translator's Note -- No Name of my Own -- Boy in the Twilight -- Why There Was No Music -- Victory -- Appendix -- Mid-air Collisions -- On the Bridge -- Sweltering Summer -- Timid as a Mouse -- Their Son -- The Skipping-and-stepping Game -- -- Why do I Have to Get Married? -- Friends.