It is an honor and a pleasure to introduce this collection of Chinese translations of essays published in Narrative plus a few other important recent essays，and I want to begin by expressing my gratitude to Professor Tang Weisheng for all the work he has done to bring this collection into print。Thank you very，very much，Professor Tang。
I find it especially appropriate that this collection is appearing so soon after the scholarly organization that sponsors the journal decided to change its name from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature to the International Society for the Study of Narrative。The members voted to describe the Society as an“International”organization so that we could foreground the Society’s mission of providing a network for narrative scholars from around the globe and so that we could more accurately describe the membership，since in recent years the number of members from outside the United States has increased significantly。These demographic changes have also been reflected in the contributions to the journal。In the last four years or so，Narrative has published work from scholars located in Australia，Canada，China，Denmark，England，Finland，Germany（including the essay by Greta Olson in this collection），Korea，and Israel as well as in the United States。This inaugural issue of Chinese translations signals another significant stage in the metamorphosis of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature into the International Society for the Study of Narrative。