Shanghai Steam
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A superior person is not an instrument.
—Kongzi, Lunyu
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Minsoo Kang is the author of the short story collection Of Tales and Enigmas (Prime, 2006) and the history book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2011). He is an associate professor of European history at the University of Missouri — Saint Louis.
Afterword
This anthology is the result of one of us saying “I wish,” and the others saying “Yes!”
So this anthology is for wishers everywhere.
Dream big.
Fly.
Ace, Calvin and Renée
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Shanghai Steam
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Table of Contents
Shanghai Steam
Notice
Acknowledgments
When Worlds Collide
The Fivefold Proverbs of Zhen Xiaquan
Qin Yun’s Mechanical Dragon and the Cricket Spies
Moon-Flame Woman
Love and Rockets at the Siege of Peking
The Master and the Guest
Ming Jie and the Coffee Maker of Doom
A Hero Faces the Celestial Empire; A Death by Fire is Avenged by Water
Riding the Wind
Mistress of the Pearl Dragon
Song of My Heart
Last Flight of the Lóng Qíshì
Protection from Assassins
Seeds of the Lotus
The Ability of Lightness
Fire in the Sky
The Legend of Wong Heng Li
Flying Devils
Legend of the Secret Masterpiece
Jing Ke Before the Principle of Order
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