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"Other Places, Other Times is a collection of twenty-six historical fictions. Thirteen of the stories are about Chen Hsi-wei, an imaginary peasant/poet of the Sui period, circa 600 C.E. As a boy, Hsi-wei served the emperor on a perilous mission. He turned down the offer of material rewards in favor of an education which made him a poet. Hsi-wei travels the empire making straw sandals and verses. The narratives account for Hsi-wei's poems, which are also included. The other thirteen stories are set in various times and locations, from post-war England to Renaissance Italy, Paris in the Fifties to post-war Germany, South America in the sixteenth century to Hesse in the mid-nineteenth, Ruthenia in the seventeenth, and the American West after the Civil War"--
Kristyrmishl -- Hsi-wei and the murders in Licheng -- Property -- Hsi-wei at the moon festival -- Marche militaire -- Hsi-wei in Huaiyang -- The Rio Rosa crisis -- Hsi-wei in the gardens of Shun -- Egon Gleicher -- Hsi-wei in Wuyan -- Philharmonia -- Hsi-wei and the garden of Yangdi -- Three noons -- Hsi-wei and the three proverbs -- Petite suite litteraire -- Hsi-wei and the wood-block printer -- Count Mactenburg -- Hsi-wei and the little straw sandals -- City of Caesars -- Hsi-wei, Song Sidao and Shi Xing -- Luciana di Parma -- Hsi-wei and the Great Wall -- Irretito animae -- Hsi-wei and the worn-out brush -- The dreams of Count Wenzel von Geiz and the Jew Eisik -- Hsi-wei and the fall of the Sui.