PHANTASMAGORIA

　　This novel consists 102 chapters.  The chapters are short, but the dialogues between the characters are meant to be philosophical.

　　The story is about a prince traveling in the space eight hundred years from now, and his memory of growing up and living on earth in the twentieth century.

　　The narrative addresses on different issues related to life and culture, many perspectives such as art, food, politics, religion and love are touched on.  The description on food is extensive, and it reflects on the author’s life and family manners. 

　　Although the conversations between the protagonist and other characters on different subjects are fascinating on how the technology is advanced and the encounter of extra-terrestrials in the future life in the space, but it is more important to sense the big question of how human face themselves and how to look for the meaning of existence in unlimited time and space if ever given.

作者簡介

Dahong Wang

　　Dahong Wang was born in Beijing on July 6, 1917, and was raised in Shanghai and Suzhou.  His father was Wang Chong-huei, an important figure internationally in the legal profession.  After graduating from Jinghai Elementary School, he attended Jinling High School in Nanjing and Suzhou Middle School.  In 1930, Dahong followed his father to Hague where his father was stationed, and entered La Ch?taigneraie School in Geneva.  He was admitted in the University of Cambridge in 1936 where his first major was mechanical engineering, but he changed to study architecture later.  After Cambridge, he went to the United States, and earned his architecture master from Harvard University.

　　With education received from Cambridge and Harvard, Dahong Wang was the first in Taiwan to receive a complete modern Western architecture education.  During his Harvard years, Dahong Wang was taught by Modernist masters Walter Gropius (who headed Bauhaus School previously) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and in the same class with some grand names of contemporary architects including I. M. Pei and Philip Johnson. 

WARNING TO OUR READERS 4
1. The Spaceyacht Medusa 5
2. An Upstart 6
3. The Supreme Ruler 7
4. The Naming of a Fleet 8
5. Passengers in Space 9
6. Passengers in Space (continued) 13
7. A Scientist-Mystic 14
8. Murphy's Dream 15
9. A Flying Palace 17
10. The Dining Room on the Spaceyacht Medusa 19
11. The Grand Tour 22
12. The Void 23
13. Grarmy 25
14. A Handsel 26
15. Daddy 28
16. Anti -artism 29
17. The Persistence of Memory 31
18. The Death of Anti-art Movement 33
19. Pax 34
20. The Ultimate Drug 35
21. The Drug Production 36
22. Land of Dreams 37
23. War without End 39
24. The Battle of Square City 40
25. A Battle 41
26. The Green Leather Box 44
27. Nicole 46
28. Mmnmy 49
29. Pietro 50
30. Hide and Seek 53
31. Satan's Creation 56
32. Music in Space 59
33. The Sleeping Gypsy 60
34. Art 61
35. The Garden of Eden 64
36. A High Tea 66
37. Caterina or Kale 71
38. Granny invited Kate to tea 72
39. Ants 76
40. Cherry Trees 80
41. Cletnentine 83
42. Tea With Granny 85
43. Devil’s Creation 88
44. Alice 90
45. The Arch-enemy 92
46. Storm in a Tea Cup 94
47. Little Star 95
48. Matriarchate 96
49. An lmp in Space 99
50. The Borderland 101
51. Granny’s Dinner Menu 102
52. A Tryst 106
53. Dolce Far Niente 110
54. A Concert 111
55. Home 114
56. Music 116
57. Tea Time 118
58. Night Climb 120
59. A Dryad 123
60. Joy 125
61. East and West 127
62. A Happy People 128
63. Good and Bad 131
64. Flight 133
65. The Vegetarians 134
66. The Crystal Chapel 137
67. Gems & Pearls 139
68. Spoons 140
69. Uncle George 142
70. The Castle of Uncle George 143
71. Grass 146
72. Romeo and Juliet 148
73. Medianoche 150
74. The Lawn 153
75. The Gilded Youth 156
76. Poetry 157
77. The Jain 159
78. The Janist 162
79. The Vegetarian 166
80. The Moon 170
81. Butterfly 173
82. Luna Day 174
83. Tea 177
84. The Tower of Babel 180
85. Among the Angels 182
86. A Fille de Joie 185
87. A Courtesan 188
88. Avis 190
89. Butterflies 192
90. Murphy’s bash 196
91. The Titanic 199
92. Kistmet 201
93. Soiree Musicale 205
94. A Tale of Black and White 209
95. A Dream 214
96. The Strange Diary of Murphy Moore 215
97. Fossil 218
98. A Haunted Garage 221
99. Now 223
100. The Creation 225
101. Whither 227
102. Golden Friends 229