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Mei Niang. 1986. “Bang” (Clam) in Liang Shanding, ed. Changye yinghuo (Fireflies of the Long Night). Shenyang: Chunfeng wenyi chubanshe, pp. 158–216.
Mei Niang. Bangwan de xiju (An Evening’s Comedy), Wenxuan (Literary Selections), 1940, No. 1, pp. 75-81; Rpt. in Zhang Quan, ed. Mei Niang xiaoshuo sanwen ji (Mei Niang’s Collected Novels and Essays). Beijing: Beijing chubanshe, 1997, pp. 1-12.
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Mei Niang. Expatriates (Qiaomin), Xin Manzhou (New Manzhouguo), Vol. 3, No. 6, June 1941, pp. 180-84.
Mei Niang. “Ji Wu Ying shu” (Mailing a Letter to Wu Ying), Qingnian wenhua (Youth Culture), 1943, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 84.
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Mei Niang. “Wo de qingshaonian shiqi: 1920-1938” (My Childhood, 1920-1938) in Zhang Quan, ed. Xunzhao Mei Niang (Searching for Mei Niang). Beijing: Mingjing chubanshe, 1998, pp. 97-128.
Mei Niang. “Wo mei kanjianguo niang de xiaolian” (I Never Saw Mother’s Smiling Face), Funü zazhi (Women’s Journal), Nov. 1944; Rpt. in Zhang Quan, ed. Mei Niang xiaoshuo sanwen ji (Mei Niang’s Collected Novels and Essays). Beijing: Beijing chubanshe, 1997, pp. 511-12.
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Mei Niang. Ye he hua kai (The Blossoming of Flowers That Close in the Night), 1943; Rpt. in Zhang Quan, ed. Mei Niang xiaoshuo sanwen ji (Mei Niang’s Collected Novels and Essays). Beijing: Beijing chubanshe, 1997, 394-508.
Mei Niang. “Yi ge chaqu” (A Sideline) in Feng Weiqun, Wang Jianzhong, Li Chunyan, Li Shuquan, eds. Dongbei lunxian shiqi wenxue (Literature of the Northeast Enemy-Occupation Period). Shenyang: Shenyang chubanshe, 1992, pp. 414-16.
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天空没有留下翅膀的痕迹，但我已经飞过——记民国女作家梅娘(There are no Traces of Wings Left in the Sky, But I Have Already Flown By: The Story of the Female Writer Mei Niang in the Republic of China). Sohu.com. 28 March 2020. https://www.sohu.com/a/383889308_483111.
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