Hi everyone :) ,
So I grabbed a couple of books just to see where the Brits and the Americans were putting their commas, full stops etc. One of them was Rice by Su Tong, translated by Howard Goldblatt.
Guess what? Rice had no punctuation (speech) marks in... at all. I had read it and never noticed. Just goes to show how complacent one can become, I must have put the speech marks in myself, without seeing them.
John D.