Fissures : Chinese writing today / selected and edited by Henry YH Zhao, Yanbing Chen, John Rosenwald ; foreword by Breyten Breytenbach.

Quatrains Eulogy / Song Lin, translated by Yanbing Chen 19
Landscape over Zero Keyword Untitled Vigil Old Place As I Know It / Bei Dao, translated by Yanbing Chen & John Rosenwald 21
Fire Shadow / Xi Chuan, translated by Yanbing Chen 28
Da Ma's Way of Speaking / Zhu Wen, translated by Mao Liang 30
Guo Lusheng / Cui Weiping, translated by Su Genxing 48
Preparing His Biography / Hong Ying, translated by John Cayley 57
It's Just Like Before Five Years Those Islands Never a Dreamer Returning / Duo Duo, translated by Gregory B. Lee 58
The Death of Zilu / Hu Dong, translated by Jenny Putin 64
My Sister Lan's Specimen Book / Gao Ertai, translated by H. Batt 90
The Foreign Beach / Zhang Zhen, translated by Yanbing Chen 96
Adams River / Janet Tan, translated by the author 98
The Hard-Working Glazier November's Guide / Lu De'An, translated by by John Cayley & Yanbing Chen 105
A May That Will Last Forever / Xu Xiao, translated by H. Batt 108
Truant Days / Gu Xiaoyang, translated by Duncan Hewitt 126
Three Short-Lived Poems from Yesterday / Zeng Hong, translated by Yanbing Chen 132
Who is the Son God Needs Godsend / Wang Yin, translated by Yanbing Chen 212
Blue Notebook / Sun Xiaodong, translated by Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-chun Lin 214
Recent Research on Yu Hong / Hong Ying, translated by Desmond Skeel 224
The Composer's Tower / Yang Lian, translated by Brian Holton 244
The English Instructor at the Institute of Agriculture / Bai Hua, translated by Yanbing Chen 246
Our Hunger, Our Sleep / Ouyang Jianghe, translated by Yanbing Chen & John Rosenwald 258
Embers / Han Shaogong, translated by Thomas Moran 263
Mourning the Cat the Duck Prophet / Han Dong, translated by Yanbing Chen 280
Fang Wan's Paradise / Huang Shi, translated by Yanbing Chen 282
The Stage / Lu Dongzhi, translated by Desmond Skeel 133
From Lexicon, Nouns / Chen Dongdong, translated by Yanbing Chen 142
Night View of New York / Zhang Zao, translated by Yanbing Chen 144
The Snuff Bottle / Hong Ying, translated by Jenny Putin 148
From the Sorcerer's Book / Hu Dong, translated by Yanbing Chen 167
Brief Notes on Walls / Shi Tiesheng, translated by Desmond Skeel 170
October's Writing / You Ren, translated by Yanbing Chen 181
Taking Advantage / Han Dong, translated by Desmond Skeel 183.