A Day in China (2)
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This book is my country's first large-scale reportage collection initiated by Zou Taofen and edited by Mao Dun. In the spring of 1936, Zou Taofen was inspired by Gorky's compilation of "One Day in the World" and decided to publish "One Day in China". He invited Mao Dun to be the editor-in-chief, and agreed to use May 21 of that year as the node to issue a call for essays to the whole country, asking people from all walks of life to "record what they saw, heard, and did on this day as a cross-section of China on May 21, 1936." The book contains nearly 500 articles, including diaries, reports, letters, travel notes, essays, short stories and other genres. Except for a few famous writers, most of the contributors are workers, teachers, students, police, soldiers, farmers and other ordinary people. The book also contains more than 70 illustrations to reflect the actual situation in various places, among which the woodcuts were selected by Lu Xun. In addition to soliciting submissions, the editor has also been very creative and compiled three chapters: "A bird's-eye view of the country", "A day's newspaper", and "A day's entertainment", striving to cover everything about China today.
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