Written on Water Book

	Introduction
1	From the mouths of babes	1
2	Writing of one's own	15
3	Notes on apartment life	23
4	Bugle music from the night barracks	29
5	"What is essential is that names be right"	33
6	From the ashes	39
7	Shanghainese, after all	53
8	Seeing with the streets	57
9	A chronicle of changing clothes	65
10	Love	79
11	Speaking of women	81
12	By the light of the silver lantern	93
13	Let's go! : let's go upstairs	97
14	Schooling at the silver palace	101
15	Peking opera through foreign eyes	105
16	On carrots	115
17	The sayings of Yanying	117
18	Unpublished manuscripts	119
19	What are we to write?	129
20	Making people	131
21	Beating people	135
22	Poetry and nonsense	139
23	With the women on the tram	145
24	Whispers	147
25	Unforgettable paintings	163
26	Under an umbrella	171
27	On dance	173
28	On painting	189
29	On the second edition of Romances	199
30	On music	203
31	Epilogue : days and nights of China	213