Title of Zhang Ziping story collection

[zhwj]

What's the translated title there? Like any trendy Shanghai novelist of the 30s, Zhang Ziping sprinkled English, Japanese, German, and other languages into his books. I can't place this, though.

(Image taken from this collection of covers.)

[gato]

"Novel of de Tiu Ping." It could be an attempt at both English and French.

[Xiao Kui]

Could "noveloj" be Esperanto? When I googled the word I found this link

http://www.archive.org/details/marktwaintrinove17945gut

but when I looked up novel in an online Esperanto dictionary I got a different result. Apparently, though, even though Esperanto is a relatively new language there are already modern and archaic or obsolete words, so maybe it's still a possibility.

[zhwj]

Argh. You're right, Xiao Kui. That was my first instinct, but somehow I couldn't get past reading the E as a B, and Novbloj didn't hit anywhere.

Noveloj pulls up a number of Esperanto websites in China. The book is a collection of short stories, so noveloj = novellas, vs. romanoj = novels.

Thanks.

[roddy]

Which raises the question - is there a set scheme for romanizing Chinese into Esperanto? Esperanto was relatively big in China I believe, so the issue must have come up at some point.