James Joyce Ramble spread out along the course. Six Joycean works have been selected, and the story being told changes each of the six miles of the race. The works, in the order in which they are read are: Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Dubliners, and The Dead. In 2014, to celebrate the 100th Centennial of the publishing of Dubliners, three dozen actors all read from this book of short stories by Joyce. In conjunction with the James Joyce Ramble, there is an event called “Take a Walk” to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants competitors who claimed that they possessed Shi Yukun's story as "shameless crooks". Although "The Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" completed the tale, it could not stop enthusiasts and profiteers from writing and publishing more sequels, such as "Another Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" (再續小五義), "The Third Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" (三續小五義) and many others, with Lu Xun in 1924 counting 24 sequels. An explosion of copycat novels also flooded the market in the last years of the 19th century, assuming similar titles such as In a 1909 essay, writer Shi An (石菴) lamented the cheapness of