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So Jimmy set out to create a plain people's literature in Pai-hua.

To give a sample of what present-day Chinese are reading, Journalist Edgar Snow last week published a translation of 24 pai-hua stories.

Editor Snow admits his translations are very free, admits also that he has freely used his blue pencil, because even pai-hua is too discursive for occidental taste.

Because they are written in pai-hua, China's national cussword appears frequently.