Debatable Humor

◎Zhang Wen-huan is one of the foremost writers of Taiwanese literature during the Japanese colonial period. The Man Crawling upon the Earth is a novel he wrote in Japanese after a 30-year hiatus. ◎The Man Crawling upon the Earth is a story set in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. The five-year old boy Chen Kei-min is adopted into a mountain village shopkeeper's family. ◎With humor and humanistic understanding, the author Zhang Wen-huan pictures the people’s traditional way of life marked by annual festivities.

Yuan Haowen 元好問 (1190–1257) is one of the greatest Chinese poets of the past eight hundred years. He is especially famous for his poems lamenting the death and disorder that accompanied the decline, fall, and aftermath of the Jin dynasty, when the Mongols took over North China. Reading Yuan’s poems, one feels his intense pain at the demise of the dynasty and his deeply felt need to preserve the historical and cultural record of civilization as he knew it. The poems are distinguished by breadth of learning, linguistic creativity, and allusive depth. They also reveal an abiding sense of irony, and occasional self-directed wry humor. John Timothy Wixted’s treatment of 150 of Yuan Haowen’s poems distills available scholarship on the poet in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages. The poems—lucidly introduced, interpreted, and explicated—are presented in romanization and translation as well as in the original. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

在世界文坛中，美国作家马克.吐温作品的幽默和讽刺独树一帜，美国幽默艺术界的至高奖项“马克.吐温美国幽默奖" (Mark Twain Prize for American Humor)，甚至以他的名字命名。这位只读过小学的文学巨匠，他与哈雷彗星同年来到这个世界，年少时家境困窘读不起书，后来在印刷厂做过学徒，在密西西比河上做过领航员，在战争爆发时做过淘金者，在各国游走做过演讲，一度腰缠万贯，一度破产欠债.....过山车般的传奇经历，让马克.吐温看清社会真相，也看清人性人心，他用写作对抗命运，用幽默化解困境。本书精选19篇马克·吐温中短篇小说代表作，包括《竞选州长》《我在农业报做主编》《失窃的白象》《败坏了哈德菜堡的人》等经典幽默小说。翻开本书，让你在哈哈大笑中看清人性的本质！

在世界文坛中，美国作家马克.吐温作品的幽默和讽刺独树一帜，美国幽默艺术界的至高奖项“马克.吐温美国幽默奖" (Mark Twain Prize for American Humor)，甚至以他的名字命名。这位只读过小学的文学巨匠，他与哈雷彗星同年来到这个世界，年少时家境困窘读不起书，后来在印刷厂做过学徒，在密西西比河上做过领航员，在战争爆发时做过淘金者，在各国游走做过演讲，一度腰缠万贯，一度破产欠债.....过山车般的传奇经历，让马克.吐温看清社会真相，也看清人性人心，他用写作对抗命运，用幽默化解困境。本书精选21篇马克·吐温中短篇小说代表作，包括《百万英镑》《列车食人事件》《一条狗的故事》《卡拉维拉斯县的著名跳蛙》等经典幽默小说。翻开本书，让你在哈哈大笑中看清人性的本质！

The JINTIAN [今天] series of contemporary literature features new and innovative writing from mainland China and abroad. Titles in the series are edited by Bei Dao, Lydia H. Liu, and Christopher Mattison. A collaborative venture between Zephyr Press, the Jintian Literary Foundation, and The Chinese University Press, each bilingual title highlights the ever-changing literary culture of China while simultaneously expanding the English language with a wave of new voices in translation. “This collection of poems is an amazing clash of classical Chinese poetry, the New York School, postmodern cinema, and the inside of a singular heart-head. ‘Don’t worry. I’ve got no evidence here that can harm you,’ Ya Shi says, and it’s true, I’m not harmed by his tentative relationship with nature in his experimental sonnets, I’m not harmed by his dark humor or his fragmentary leaps into surprise. I’m too invested. Ya Shi deserves the ‘cardiac bang bang of literary fame’ he fears, and to Nick Admussen a

林語堂：兩腳踏東西文化，一心評宇宙文章 他是首位以英文寫作享譽國際的中國作家，其作品在西方暢銷四五十年不衰，代表作《京華煙雲》獲諾貝爾文學獎提名；他愛中國，終生以將中華文化介紹於西方為己任，至今影響西方世界的中國觀；他是將humor翻譯為「幽默」第一人，名貫中西的現代幽默大師。 他向西方人士解釋他的同胞和國家的風俗、嚮往、恐懼和思想的成就，沒有人能比得上。——《紐約時報》

潔魯夏‧阿波特(Jerusha Abbot)是名十八歲的孤兒，大家都叫她茱蒂，就在她準備離開孤兒院獨自生活之際，意外出現一位善心的神秘贊助人，願意資助她上大學，唯一的條件是她每個月要寫一封信，報告她的生活。不料她充滿坦率、幽默與想像力的信，深深吸引了這位神秘的仰慕者。他到底是誰？從寫給長腿叔叔的76封信，告訴我們這個有趣故事。 Jerusha Abbot has spent all her 18 years in an orphanage. Just when they were about to send her out into the world on her own, a benev-olent Trustee offered to pay her way through college. The only con-dition was that she had to write regularly and report on her progress. Little did she know that her humor, honesty and wit have captivated a secret admirer. Who is he and who is the trustee whose name she doesn’t know? Her letters addressed to Daddy-Long-Legs tell the story.

我們走在迷人的路 竟此成為迷路的人 第三屆周夢蝶詩獎首獎得主 備受矚目的年輕詩人周天派第一本詩集 知名詩人、散文家、小說家、翻譯家、學者　傾心推薦—— 管管‧楊澤‧陳黎‧劉克襄‧孫維民‧柯裕棻‧廖偉棠‧陳雨航‧陳子謙‧鄒佑昇 【第三屆周夢蝶詩獎 • 評審評語】 詩人周天派這本詩集，乍看樸實無華，不見現代詩中慣見的，繁複的長句，跨句，在我們的閱讀經驗裏，似乎就少了一番氣勢。 的確，周天派詩寫得太乾淨了，除了遣詞命意明白易懂，他的機智，幽默也有點乾，甚至乾得很，英文說dry humor，不無讚美之意。他的詩完全不同於台灣時下的主流寫法，章法，縱使這在以黏膩，濕潤為尚的現代詩壇並不討好。 相對於其他人，他一點也不多產，但警策之作不少，既幽默又機警。其中寫景的句子尤其生動明亮極了，意象簡單，思考卻十分精要，精采，令人印象深刻。 此集堪稱洗練，節制而有深意，珠玉之篇（gems）甚多，甚耐細讀，多嚼幾遍後，原汁原味自現，是一部有人生歷練經驗的作品。 ─── 詩人楊澤 管窺蠡測未見全局；是詩之境界，多言多錯。 詩之妙；永遠在虚無縹緲間，讀之餘味無窮，一說就破，焚琴煮鶴死在當下。 就如戀愛，展轉反側不能成眠。 好詩讀之如中毒，永難痊癒。好詩如伏羲創的八卦别無分號，千秋獨樹。 周天派某些小詩就給我中了毒，是詩毒，願意中，但是詩毒難醫也！ ─── 詩人管管 多年前我在東華大學創作所教現代詩研究課時，以早慧之姿出現在我面前的周天派，已然是我的詩友兼老師了，他們幾位新銳年輕詩人課堂內外給我相當多的激發。如今天派這本獲獎的處女詩集《島嶼派》氣派問世，讓我再次眼前一亮。這些詩作清晰地告示著一種嶄新、晶亮、精鍊的詩風，並且——用他〈基礎詩歌〉這首詩的標題來說——儲蓄著眾多帶給閱讀者生之氣力與體悟的養料，曼妙地成為某種可以作為我們生活基礎的詩歌／詩意手冊。從〈夢想〉（「我們走在迷人的路／竟此成為迷路的人」）這樣的迷人警句，到〈生活〉就是「生吃活人」這種耀眼、醒目的「陰影的謎語」，我們彷彿咀嚼著一塊帶著獨特海的方糖、砂糖味道，鹽味、甜味參雜的「島嶼檸檬派」——其簡稱，就是在此令我們垂涎的《島嶼派》，或周天派。 ─── 詩人陳黎 ● 周天派出生於檳榔嶼喬治市，幼時在熱帶島嶼水上木屋傾聽海浪成長，十九歲赴臺留學，自此以臺灣島（高雄）為半個家鄉，畢業後至另一小島工作，每隔一段時日浪遊