Short Stories Collection Description: xiv, 208 p. ; 21 cm. Contents: In the ruins -- The homecoming stranger -- Melody -- Moon on the manuscript -- Intersection -- 13 Happiness Street -- Waves. Series Title: New Directions paperbook, 693 Other Titles: Po tung. Responsibility: by Bei Dao ; edited with an introduction by Bonnie S. McDougall ; translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Susette Ternent Cooke.