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This book is a collection of the best works published in "Prose" in 2022. There are more than fifty articles, divided into four series according to the content and focus of the works. It includes not only grand chapters on historical and humanistic themes, but also elegant and leisurely sketches. It also pays more attention to realistic-themed works that fully reflect the depth of life and deeply show life experience. A large number of works in this book have been widely reprinted by well-known publications such as "Reader", "Youth Digest", "Special Attention", "Selected Prose", "Essay·Overseas Edition", "Overseas Digest", etc. Or have been selected as Chinese teaching materials and teaching aids, and Chinese reading test questions for high school and college entrance examinations. Over the past 20 years since the publication of the "Prose" annual selection series, it has paid equal attention to the beauty of words, thoughts and emotions, comprehensively showing the creative aspects of contemporary prose literary world, and has become the annual choice in the minds of more and more readers.

This collection is an attempt to reaffirm the original intention of "Prose" during the 40th anniversary of its publication. It selects the masterpieces of famous writers published in "Prose" in the past 40 years, totaling hundreds of articles by hundreds of people. This book serves as an overall review of the forty years since the publication of "Prose". It is also a process of re-precipitation and re-extraction of the texts published over the years. After research and analysis of feedback from readers, authors and experts, the selected writers and works representatively reflect the appearance and level of Chinese prose creation over the past forty years. Among them, it includes not only classic and beautiful essays by great literary masters such as Bing Xin, Ji Xianlin, Sun Li, Wang Zengqi, Wang Meng, Feng Jicai, Shi Tiesheng, and Tie Ning, but also the most representative and well-known works of current active literary stalwarts and emerging writers. At the same time, the selection also focuses on overseas Chinese prose creation to select excellent articles. "Hundred People and Hundred Articles", organized according to the year of birth of the author, spans the entire twentieth century. It is a multi-dimensional "comprehensive recall" of the publication process of "Prose", and is also a grand tour of modern and contemporary Chinese prose creation.

This book has selected more than fifty articles from the works published in "Prose" in 2021, which is a collection of this year's best works in "Prose". The whole book is divided into four series according to the content and focus of the articles. There are chapters that reflect the grand themes of history and humanities, there are elegant sketches that describe romance and leisure, and there are more works with realistic themes that cut into life. It brings together the beauty of words, thoughts and emotions, and shows the creative aspects of the contemporary prose literary world from multiple angles. It is a collection of prose works worth looking forward to. Many works have been published in "Selected Prose" and "Prose." Reprinted in "Overseas Edition", "Overseas Digest", "Youth Digest", etc.