A letter-writing campaign goes awry when a law is passed that only allows people to walk the streets at night, if they maintain a squatting position at all times...A town is overrun with cockroaches; despite the government’s official expressions of concern, the only person doing anything about it is branded an agitator...A widower is forced to move into the city to live with his son, bringing his cat and his strange country ways with him...Diao Dou’s short stories p...

**Selected as one of the Financial Times Best Books of 2012**Featuring:AUTHORS: Jie Chen, Han Dong, Diao Dou, Cau Kou, Ding Liying, Ho Sin Tung, Yi Sha, Zhu Wen, Xu Zechen and Zhang Zhihao.‘Everyone in the whole country knew this place was full of money, you only had to bend down and pick it up; everyone in the whole country also knew that opportunity here was like bird shit – while you weren’t looking it would spat...