一片落叶
2009-10
Foreign Languages Press
Bing Feng
360
This collection of miniature stories covers a wide array of subjects whiledeploying a multiplicity of writing skills.These eighty-eight distinctive yetseamless vignettes act as a condensed archive of recent great social reformsin China.through their small yet vivid sketches， portrayals and reproductionsof Chinese people's lives and feelings.The many authors，with profound.incisive thinking and vision，have been witness to and experienced neareverything in Chinese society，so they have every reason and every capacityto superbly and deftly accomplish this challenging literary mission.
Bing Feng, a pen name of Zhao Zhi. was bornin 1965. He is now a member of the ChineseWriters' Association, and President and Editor-in-Chief of Weixing Xiaoshuo （ MiniatureStories） magazine. He is also Chairman of www.zuojiawang.com, a website for Chinese writers.His fiction, prose, poetry, literary criticism,reportages and other writings have appearedin People's Literature, People's Daily, PoetryMonthly, and other periodicals. His publishedworks are Red Shadows of Birds and Observingthe Mountains While Outdoors （poetry）, BlueRain）' Season （prose poetry）, City of Tenderness（short stories）, Cloudless Blue Sky （longreportages）, and Dialogue with Life （informalessays）. Bing Feng has also been chief editorof ten books, including Top ContemporaryChinese Miniature Stories. New Century LiteraryAnthology, Dictionary of Chinese Dancers, aswell as annual collections of Top MiniatureStories in 2003 and 2（]04. and Chinese MiniatureStories of the Year in 2005, 2006 and 2007. He iscurrently working for People's Literature Press.
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However, at this moment he is the most miserable one inthe bus.Earlier, the young soldier had lent his sheepskin overcoat tothe bus driver - the driver being the only one who knew whereto get help. The bus driver had at first refused to go, claiming hemight be frozen to death on the way once he was out there, so thesoldier took off his sheepskin overcoat and lent it to him withouthesitation...Then, he saw an old man shivering in scanty clothing and a felthat, while from his nose clear mucous kept dripping onto his beard.The soldier took off his shorn-wool hat and offered it to the oldman. Seeing the young soldier's bare head and crew cut, the old mantried to refuse it, but the young soldier smiled earnestly and said,"Take it, Elder Uncle. I am young, with a lot of heat in my body.It's okay."People take it for granted he should certainly help others, afterall, he is a soldier. He believes so too.
This collection of miniature stories covers a wide array of subjects whiledeploying a multiplicity of writing skills. These eighty-eight distinctive yetseamless vignettes act as a condensed archive of recent great social reformsin China. through their small yet vivid sketches, portrayals and reproductionsof Chinese people's lives and feelings. The many authors, with profound.incisive thinking and vision, have been witness to and experienced neareverything in Chinese society, so they have every reason and every capacityto superbly and deftly accomplish this challenging literary mission. ——Bing FengThese moments and fragments of Chinese life are the "molecules" and "atoms"that make up the larger world. They are as tiny and yet as real as the dust-motes and raindrops. ——Li JingzeThe "miniature story" is a new literary genre emerging and flourishing in anew age in China. Great figures and ordinary citizens alike with their penshave forged succinct and humorous micro-reflections of the larger picture oflife. for readers to delight in and savor. ——Pan Kaixiong
《一片落叶(英文版)》为21世纪中国当代文学书库之一。
