This is an enlarged edition of the first anthology of translations from the work of Hong Kong’s most distinguished fiction writer. Xixi is the pen-name of the woman writer Zhang Yan. She has won a devoted following among Chinese readers in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the two decades since 1965, when her first story “Maria” (included in this collection) was published. Her growing reputation was firmly established in 1982 when her storiu “A Girl Like Me” was awarded the prestigious Taiwan United Daily prize for fiction. These is in these stories a haunting, often morbid, lyricism, and intense feminine sensitivity, reacting to the unique environment of Hong Kong and its fusion of East and West, tradition and modernity. With Xixi, Hong Kong literature can be said to have come of age.