The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden plots and allegiances in her girls’ school, reissued for the first time in decades.

From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang’s characters –…

Ever anxious to keep up appearances, self-avowed intellectual and scholar Nicholas Herrick knows that to involve himself in the running of his own school would be to abase himself too…