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I am a writer who writes in Chinese. According to my understanding, Chinese is the language used by Chinese people. More often this language is known by another name: Chinese. This word defines that the language belongs to a specific ethnic group: the Han Chinese. If it is defined in this way, non-Han people like me will encounter nationalists, or those who have an extreme understanding of cultural diversity, and righteously ask, why don't we write in our mother tongue? Don't you love your own nation?

"Selected Works of Alai" is a collection of works by Alai, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. It includes Alai's representative short and medium-length works "Mushroom Circle" and "Silversmith in the Moonlight", as well as a set of essays about Tibetan scenery. Alai's works use a highly national and individual carrier, embracing the dimension of time, melting the boundaries between the idealized mind and reality, and showing us a Tibetan place where poetry and history blend, shining with the brilliance of classics.

A prominent Kham Tibetan chieftain gave birth to a stupid son with his Han wife after drinking. This fool, whom everyone considers to be incompatible with real life, has a premonition and behavior beyond the times, and has become a witness to the rise and fall of the chieftain system. The story of the novel is exciting, twists and turns. With passionate writing and detached observation, it shows the rich national customs and the romantic mystery of the chieftain system.

It has been more than thirty years since the Mao Dun Literature Award was established, and nearly forty writers have participated in the award-winning works. Most of these writers have been working in the literary world for many years. In addition to novels, they have also made outstanding achievements in the fields of "short" genres such as novellas, short stories and essays. This time, from an artistic perspective, we selected the first batch of classic works of novellas, short stories and essays by some award-winning writers, compiled them into a collection of about 200,000 words, and assembled them into this set of "Short Classics of Mao Dun Literature Award Winning Writers". "Dance of the Soul" is a collection of Alai's works. Including "Silversmith in the Moonlight", "Fish", "Savage", "Dance of the Soul", etc.

Alai is not shouting as a spokesperson, but listening to the beating heart of a nation and amplifying this voice. This kind of "cross-ethnic writing" shows an unusually brilliant color. The life of foreigners is pastoral in mature characters, but Alai uses mature Chinese characters to express the power beyond fate. Passion comes from natural scenes. We are moved, but we don't know why.

This book brings together many self-selected representative works by first-class contemporary celebrities. It is specially designed for literature lovers and leads readers into the heart of contemporary literature. "Flying of Bees" is a collection of works by the famous writer Alai. "Flying of Swarms of Bees" is divided into two parts: novella and prose, including "Eryi the Executioner", "Agu Dunba", "Sophora Flower", "Old House", "Flight of Swarms of Bees", "Voice", "Bloodline", "Savage", "Fish", "Silversmith in the Moonlight", etc.

The book is a collection of short stories by Alai, the author of "The Dust Has Settled". It is set in Aba, Sichuan, with Tibetan customs and customs, and tells short stories of growth. It also includes a travel route map of Aba. I believe you can take this book with you and have the opportunity to walk under the sky of Aba with your heart and even your feet, enjoying the most beautiful scenery, the most emotional feelings, and the strange words. Different from Alai's other collections of novels and short stories, this collection of novels named "Aba Alai" is based on Alai's birthplace, Aba, Sichuan, as its entire background, highlighting his "literary field" that is different from other Chinese writers. The distinctive Tibetan scenery and people, the inner trajectory of "growth", and even a map of Aba and a travel route map to Aba make this unique collection of short stories more like a unique journey from nature to the soul that Alai leads readers who like him.

This is Alai's story of recalling his father's generation. They happened after the dust of the great era had settled, and they happened in the memory of young Alai. They were separated, but they struggled to adapt; they were abandoned, but they were full of hope. Times are always changing, and the dust has not yet settled. This is Alai's boyhood poem, his path to growth, and his spiritual autobiography.

Selected prose of Alai. Alai is a contemporary middle-aged writer. His main Tibetan works include the poetry collection "Lengmo River", the novel collections "Bloodstains of Old Years" and "Silversmith under the Moonlight", the novels "The Dust Has Settled" and "Empty Mountain", the long geography prose "Ladders of the Earth", and the collection of essays "Just Like This, Increasingly Abundant". "The Dust Has Settled" was published by People's Literature Publishing House in March 1988. In 2000, he won the fifth Mao Dun Literature Award. This book is one of the "Chinese Prose Collector's Edition" books.

In order to change his poverty and weakness, Tibetan young man Lagazeli gave up his studies and love and embarked on the road of felling trees and selling wood. Smart Tibetan youths are wandering in the mystery of getting rich. Money drives Jicun people into madness. In an era of chaotic values, right and wrong confuse the new generation of Jicun people. The prosperous town disappeared like mist, and the beliefs, grudges, struggles, and doubts were just like people gone away. Cangshan has become old, so how can people be embarrassed.

This is the first collection of essays by Alai, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. It comprehensively shows Alai outside of novels to readers, and shows Alai influenced by three cultures: Sutra, Han and Western. It also comes with 12 pages of Alai's life photos.

"The Collection of Books·Alai's Works·The Utopia of Grass and Trees: Chengdu Phenology (Collector's Edition)" is an essay by the writer Alai. The author uses the special medium of the camera to record the blooming and withering of various flowers in the city where he lives at any time. Starting from the plum blossoms that first show their appearance in the year, to crabapples, early cherry blossoms, magnolias, bauhinia, jasmine, paulownia, lilacs, iris, hibiscus, gardenia, etc., Various plants with different flowering periods bloom in sequence, leading readers to follow the images in the camera to experience the colorful style of the city in different seasons.

"Starting from the Suomo River" is a collection of poems by Alai, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. It includes works with distinctive styles and elegant imagery, including "The Storm Gone", "It's Night", "Mountains, or Ode to Myself", and "Dance of the Soul". These poems show the vast and silent plateau life through beautiful language and smooth narrative, and express Alai's awe and love for the soil and nature where his ancestors have lived for generations with simple and sincere writing styles. This book is the Alai poetry collection with the largest number of poems to date. The first volume is from the author's first personal poetry collection "Suo Mo River" published by Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House in 1991. The second and third volumes are selected from "Alai's Poems" published by Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House in 2016. On this basis, the fourth volume includes Alai's early works published in local magazines, ethnic poetry anthologies and other reading materials.

The story of "The Treasured Sword" begins with "I" being assigned to my hometown from the College for Nationalities. "I" came back from graduation and was dusty. As soon as I left the long-distance bus station, I saw Han Yue. She graduated from the College for Nationalities with "me" and was also assigned to this small city far away from the rest of the world, but she has a rich experience and was once the girlfriend of Liu Jinzang, a man of the hour in the college. Liu Jinzang is a mixed-race boy who combines the advantages of Han and Tibetan looks. His father has a considerable position in the military division, so he lives a very cool life and has a lot of girlfriends. As a Han Yue, Han Yue stands out from the crowd and becomes the winner in chasing Liu. But Liu Jinzang failed to graduate because of selling cultural relics. I was assigned to work with such a girl in this small city surrounded by mountains and where Han and Tibetan people live together. Then we got together and got married, but we never had children. Life is like this, plain and monotonous, like the wind blowing regularly from the mountains.

The panoramic novel collection includes 21 novels written by Alai before and after he became famous, outlining the trajectory of Alai's creation towards maturity. Not only that, the novel collection also includes Alai's poems and emotional insights in the form of cards in the book, fully demonstrating the charm of "wise Alai, poetic Alai".

In my hometown river valley, every time the full moon rises, people are saying, listen, the silversmith is at work again. The full moon rose into the sky, and its hazy light made the river valley emptier, making everything around it blurry and distant. At this time, just listen, the sound of silversmiths forging silver can be heard in the moonlight or on the moon... "The Silversmith in the Moonlight" is a collection of short stories, which includes 13 short stories by the author Alai, including "The Savage", "Sophora Flower", "Flying Swarm of Bees", "Agu Dunba", "The Silversmith in the Moonlight", "Growing Up in Gra", etc.

The writer's realistic attitude in "expressing the secret history of a village" is very clear. It is not a single ethnic group, nor is it pastoral. It is legendary. The writer has extremely profound cultural, religious, natural and social experience of Tibetan villages. To call it a "secret history" is not to reveal its mystery, but to use special techniques to reveal the pain of being ignored and numb. Only in this way can the grand pattern of the novel be formed. The major and solemn themes, the thick and profound content, and the controllable structure have more profound thoughts on human and nature, politics and culture, religion, social harmony and progress. This is a realistic masterpiece full of masculine beauty, sweeping away the current trend of malaise, triviality and decadence in the literary world.

"Empty Mountain" describes six stories that took place in a Tibetan village called Ji Village from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. There are nearly 30 main characters. This book is composed of two parts: "Drifting in the Wind" and "Sky Fire". "Drifting in the Wind" tells the story of the illegitimate son Gera who depended on his somewhat demented mother, suffered humiliation, and finally died unjustly. "Sky Fire" tells the story of the wizard Duoji who saw various changes in the surrounding world during the Cultural Revolution during a forest fire.

Alai, a Maoist award-winning writer from Sichuan, has a new book, a requiem dedicated to the victims of the "5.12" Earthquake. After the Wenchuan earthquake, Yunzhong Village, which has thousands of years of legend, immigrated to the plains. Year after year. The priest Abba felt that his strength was dissipating, and he wanted to return to the disappearing village to be with the dead. However, a miracle happened and he created a paradise...

"The Dust Has Settled" is a masterpiece by Alai, a heavyweight writer who has been very popular for the Nobel Prize in Literature in recent years. It won the 5th Mao Dun Literary Award and is also a best-selling classic in contemporary Chinese literary circles. In the novel, a prominent Tibetan chieftain named Maiqi gave birth to a foolish son to his Han wife after drinking. This fool that everyone thinks is out of tune with real life, but he has premonition abilities and behavior that transcend the times. While other chieftains were planting opium poppies, the foolish master suddenly suggested planting wheat instead. As a result, the opium supply was oversupplied and no one cared about it. A large number of hungry people defected to Mai Qi's command. The territory and population of the Mai Qi family reached an unprecedented scale. As a result, the foolish master married his beautiful wife Tana and opened the first border trade market in the Kham region. However, when the foolish young master returned to the Maiqi Tusi official village, a bloody storm within the family over inheritance quietly began...

The winning work of the 5th Mao Dun Literature Award has been adapted into a TV series of the same name, starring Li Jie, Liu Wei and Song Jia. A prominent Kham Tibetan chieftain gave birth to a stupid son with his Han wife after drinking. This fool, whom everyone considers to be incompatible with real life, has a premonition and behavior beyond the times, and has become a witness to the rise and fall of the chieftain system. The story of the novel is exciting, twists and turns. With passionate writing and detached observation, it shows the rich national customs and the romantic mystery of the chieftain system.

There is a woman of unknown origin in the sheepfold! The news was like a bolt of lightning, lighting up the lifeless village. People quickly gathered in the sheepfold, where the woman was still sleeping sweetly under the sheepskin. Her face was dirty, no, no, it wasn't really disgusting, but like the paint on her face. Black oil paint, gray oil paint. It was a morning after snow, and this woman of unknown origin fell asleep sweetly in the haystack, amidst the warm smell of mutton, feeling as peaceful as a deity.

"Executioner Silversmith - Extra Chapter" is a wonderful sequel and "extra" to Alai's Mao Dun Literature Award-winning work "The Dust Has Settled". This work was created before and after Alai completed the novel "The Dust Has Settled", with three related or underdeveloped characters in the novel as the protagonists. Among them, there are the executioners of the chieftain family who have been passed down from generation to generation, and through the eyes of the executioners, they reshape the "Poppy War" that influenced the historical direction of the chieftain system; there is also the genius silversmith who stepped out of the moonlight in "The Dust Has Settled", and uses the proud life of the silversmith to reflect the power struggle and change of the chieftain family; These "external chapters" are organic supplements to "The Dust Has Settled" and reflect each other with "The Dust Has Settled", jointly sketching a three-dimensional picture of the eve of the collapse of the chieftain system on the snowy plateau.

"Three Cordyceps" is the first part of the "Three Treasures from Mountains" series by the famous writer Alai. Alai said in his creative talk, "I haven't written a novella for ten years. When I visited Japan ten years ago, I soaked in the hot springs there. I suddenly remembered the hot springs on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and wrote a piece called "Distant Hot Springs." I never wrote it again. This year, I suddenly decided to write a few novels based on the products produced on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau that are strongly demanded by today's consumer society. The first one is "Three Cordyceps". The second one is "Mushroom Circle". The third one is "Shadows of Cypresses on the River".

This book is a collection of works by Alai, winner of the fifth Mao Dun Literature Award. It includes novels such as Old House, White Mountains Like Galloping Horses, Snow Light Surrounding the Mountains, Sleep, Bloodstains of Old Years, Life, and Distant Horizon. When Alai's novel collection was included in the Rising Stars of Literature series ten years ago, people could not truly appreciate the true meaning of these novels describing the history and real life of Tibetan people in Aba. However, with the award-winning novel "The Dust Has Settled", his early novels have revealed their true artistic value: Isn't that crumbling "old house" the epitome of the decline of the chieftain system? Isn't that step-by-step pilgrimage a reflection of Tibetans seeking their spiritual homeland? It was from this book that Alai entered the temple of Chinese literature.

"The Sun on the Prairie" is one of the masterpieces introducing Mr. Nima's life story. After Mr. Nima passed away, there were three main works that wrote more comprehensively and systematically about his life story: one was "Nima's School Running Model" written by Comrade Xu Changfu, Aba Prefecture Education Committee in 1991; the other was "Nima's School Running Model" written in 1997 by one of his students and a young Tibetan scholar Gongqiu Renqing based on his "Autobiography" and according to Tibetan biography. The third book is "The Sun on the Grassland" written by Comrade Alai in 1993. This is a book with the unique vision of a young Tibetan writer and the use of documentary literature to reflect Mr. Nyima's extraordinary life and deeds in an all-round and multi-angle way. What these three books have in common is that they are completely faithful to Mr. Nima's life and events.

The book is the essence of the essays by Alai, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. It is divided into three parts. The most important part is Alai's description of the customs of Tibet in Tibet, describing a Tibet that is easily misunderstood by the world, a Tibet that is intertwined with reality and historical legends, and a Tibet that has experienced legendary vicissitudes and is peaceful. There are also some words about Alai's experience of reading foreign writers while he was ill. The spiritual dialogue between writers can make people better understand Alai's literary thoughts and ideas. The third part contains texts related to some of Alai's important literary moments and texts, such as prefaces and speeches. These texts contain both rational literary thoughts and beautiful poetic prose. In particular, the writer talked about the significance of music in his literary life.

"Recording the Years with Writings" is a new collection of prose essays by Alai in 2020. This book is composed of seven parts: "Yunzhongji", "Reading Notes", "Travel Notes", "Reminiscences of People", "Appreciation Notes", "Wine Tasting Notes" and "Speech Notes". For the first time, Alai showed his diverse talents, knowledge, emotional world and daily life in his works. In writing this collection of essays, the author wants to be different from previous books and use words to express all aspects of a writer's life related to writing. Let readers get closer to Alai, a literary artist who is full of human fireworks and full of life.

Our stories are but elegy to some passers-by whose traces have been lost. They once reined in their mounts and appeared in the dawn of history. From then on, he ruled for an era. And at dusk, the mountain wind stirred up the horse manes and the black felt blankets they wore. At this time, the phantom of the mountain peak appeared again, and all the scenes were beyond recognition. The rough and spreading wilderness has been enveloped by the sound of machinery and new joys and sorrows.

Wang Zezhou was born in a remote village in the Minjiang Valley. There were only a few dozen families in the village. Their home was located under five old cypress trees by the river. These Minjiang cypress trees are Wang Zezhou's natural classroom and the support of his mother Yina's spiritual beliefs. As the first college student in the village, Wang Zezhou, a Chinese-Tibetan mixed-race boy, has been filled with resentment towards his humble and dull father, a carpenter, and his mother, who was bullied by men because of his family background. Later, he left his hometown to go to university in the city. In school, he also suffered bullying and discrimination from his classmate Kampot Tenzin because of his origin. After graduating from university, he chose to return to his hometown. Due to work, he met Kampot Tenzin, and they quarreled over their ideas of ecology, nature, and tourism development... At the same time, his relationship with his parents quietly changed unknowingly, from resentment and dissatisfaction to tender attachment. The disputes and worries in the world slowly melted away in the understanding of his father and the return of family affection...

This book selects Mr. Alai's speeches in recent years in various places, including "Literary concepts and literary writing issues", "Literature always faces some problems", "Literary narrative expression and imagination", "Non-fiction literature should have cultural responsibility", "When we talk about literature, what are we talking about" and other aspects about literature, writing, culture and other aspects. It combines the author's actual writing experience to discuss various aspects of literature in a more realistic way.

This is the story of Alai writing Tibetan legends and reality. They used fate to rewrite the legend, but it was rewritten by reality. They tossed and struggled between belief and doubt, but never gave up hope. Alai will describe to you his journey in the vast land of his hometown, from his feet to his heart, from darkness to brightness.

This book is a collection of a series of essays with the theme of popular science and science fiction written by Alai during his tenure at "Science Fiction World". From it, we can understand the development trajectory of the world's scientific community from 1997 to 2005. It not only allows us to look up at the stars, but also allows us to look down at the earth and see within ourselves. From the perspective of humanistic care, the author makes a profound explanation of the impact that the application of scientific results has on human life, thoughts and spirits. These insights are still thought-provoking even today.

Alai suddenly emerged in the 1990s, giving Tibetan literary works a special shine. Alai's novels are famous for their grand narratives, with thick and profound contents. They especially have more profound thoughts on man and nature, politics and culture, religion, social harmony and progress. The novel has a strong allegorical color, and the grand narrative and detailed psychological portrayal are in perfect harmony. It is not only rich in distinctive national character, but also embodies the spirit of the times and universal values. In terms of artistic pursuit, his writing style is poetic and smart, and his works have profound artistic conception. Their magical colors have conquered professionals and ordinary readers.

This book is one of the series of "Prose Collection of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Famous Writers" and selects the prose works of Alai, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award. It includes "Voice", "Boundaries", "Camping Under the Starlight", "Looking at an Elm Tree", "The Sound of Conch in the Morning", the Qinghai-Tibet Notes Series, the Reading Notes While Illness series, and many of his speeches. The subject matter is rich and the content is vivid, including what he saw and heard during his travels, as well as stories passed down through history and deep philosophical thoughts. This collection of essays shows Alai's prose creation from different aspects, condenses the author's thinking over the years, reveals his deep love and praise for nature, and expresses his awe for history and civilization.

Mao Dun Literature Prize winner Alai's affectionate biography of Mother River. Alai, the author of "The Dust Has Settled", traces the source of the Yellow River all the way, walks on the plateau, and also walks in the depths of historical and geological changes, awakening memories and continuing the blood of this land and our civilization. The author was born on a plateau, and the thin air did not hinder his observation and thinking. He used poetic language to describe the natural landscape and geological changes in the source area of ​​the Yellow River, explore the cultural memory of this land, and take a close-up of the people here. The Yellow River, our faceless ancient mother, in Alai's writings, we see her youthful appearance again and feel her body temperature and heartbeat again. This book is not only a written link between mothers and children, but also a masterpiece of nature essays that reflects on the relationship between nature and humans.

This book is a novel by Tibetan writer Alai and the winner of the 5th Mao Dun Literary Award. The novel describes a prominent Kham Tibetan chieftain who gave birth to a foolish son to his Han wife after drinking. This fool, whom everyone considers to be incompatible with real life, has a premonition and behavior that transcends the times, and becomes a witness to the rise and fall of the chieftain system. The novel shows the unique Tibetan customs and the romance and mystery of the chieftain system.

Climbing a mountain is to use your body to feel the greatness of nature, and to feel the sublimation of your own personality and will. With such a process, it makes sense to climb higher. I wrote "The Climber" to write about spirit and why Chinese people must climb Mount Everest. I was writing about mountain climbing in the 1960s and 1970s. It was the first time since ancient times that we treated our mountains and rivers in a scientific way. At that time, the country was in extremely difficult times, and most Chinese people did not have enough to eat. Under such circumstances, climbing Mount Everest was almost impossible. This is what sparked my personal interest... The will of people and the power of the country made this impossible finally possible, which demonstrated the spirit of heroism.