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This book is a collection of Su Tong's short stories, including "Cavalry", "Snowy Pig Head", "Hand", "Water Ghost", "Cuban Knife", "Independent Column", "Western Window", "Pai Alai Sneakers", "Walking One Kilometer Along the Railway", "Like an Angel". "Similarly Beautiful", "Crime Scene", "Wooden Shell Radio", "Gray Woolen Cap", "Fox", "A Sunday Morning", "Little Mo", "Paper", "Umbrella", "People's Fish", "Crying Ears", etc. The boy in "Cavalry" dreams of becoming a cavalryman but cannot, and his dream is ultimately shattered. The innocence of young people, the cruelty of reality, and the adults with hateful faces almost constitute everything in Su Tong's novels. Reading Su Tong is a wonderful experience. Watching a young man approach his dream step by step, with some absurdity and some ignorance, and eventually inevitably leading to destruction. This is a typical Su Tong-style beauty.

This book is a collection of Su Tong's novellas, including "Spring in the Meat Factory", "Osmanthus Chain Group", "Taming a Child" and "Letter from the Masses". The narration of Su Tong's novels is elegant and calm, pure as water, written plainly but full of meaning; the writing is elegant and full of Jiangnan sentiment; the narrative and lyricism are perfectly combined, and the writing style is unique.

Su Tong is an extremely talented writer with one-of-a-kind sensibility and imagination. He uses delicate and ghostly words to depict the tortuous fate of Wu Zetian, the most powerful woman in Chinese history, hinting at the bloodshed, cruelty and heaviness of history. The compassionate and imaginative words of "Wu Zetian" restore historical details and create emotional resonance for readers.

This book is a collection of Su Tong's short stories, including "Butterfly and Chess", "The Thief", "The Queen of Hearts", "The New Fairy Match", "Running Wild", "Scarecrow", "Boxcar", "Kitten", "Corn Explosion", "Eighteen Farewell", "Sound Research". "Research", "Cousin Comes to Maqiao Town", "Tell Them I went on a White Crane", "The Most Desolate Zoo in the World", "Two Cooks", "Burn", "A Friend on the Road", "About Pickled Fish", "Sunflower" and other works. The unquestionable king. He is a man with dreams, a writer who can create worlds in words. He used a kind of gentle rebellion, elegant imagination and the perceptual beauty of words to construct a rich and vast literary kingdom for himself, and thus marked the height that contemporary China has reached in terms of literary fiction and spiritual imagination. The film adapted from "Tell Them I Ride on the White Crane" is directed by Li Ruijun and stars Ma Xingchun, Zhang Min and others. It was shortlisted for the "Horizon Unit" of the 69th Venice International Film Festival and the "Window of Asian Film" unit of the 17th Busan International Film Festival.

The story this book tells takes place in a commoner's home in the south. It is the story of a traditional Chinese family. The story takes place from the 1960s to the 1980s. Su Tong said: "I wrote about a crying ghost. He didn't know why he was suffering this way. Later, he didn't want to care about the affairs of the world. He went to hell, leaving greater loneliness to others, to me, to all of us... So I wrote "The Bodhisattva Man"." This is Su Tong's novel with the characteristics of magical realism.

This book is an important novel written by Su Tong after "My Life as an Emperor", "Wu Zetian" and "Mi", and is a groundbreaking exploration. In this novel, Su Tong breaks away from the history and hometown he usually narrates, and casts his gaze on the current society: a blond girl from the north stayed in a train station hotel, and as she screamed in the bathroom, a snake disaster suddenly broke out in the city, and there were chaotic snakes everywhere. Keyuan, a social worker, worked hard to collect debts and forced his life... Surrounding the small people living and interacting around the train station, Su Tong began to think about the fate of a group of small people abandoned by society.

Su Tong is the undoubted king of Chinese short stories. He is a man with dreams, a writer who can create worlds in words. He used a kind of gentle rebellion, elegant imagination and the perceptual beauty of words to construct a rich and vast literary kingdom for himself, and thus marked the height that contemporary China has reached in terms of literary fiction and spiritual imagination. "Cavalry" contains important short stories in his creative history, presenting Su Tong's literary charm in many aspects.

This book is a collection of short stories by Su Tong, including "Calla Lily", "Giant Baby", "Saturday", "August Diary", "Spy", "Atmospheric Pressure", "A Group of Sheep on the Beach", "Shuttle Bus to the Porcelain Factory", "White Sand", "Angel's Food", "Huo It consists of works such as "Chaos", "Blowers Heading West", "Completion of the Ceremony", "My Cotton, My Homeland", "Flying Over My Hometown of Maple and Poplar Trees", "Escape", "Tribute to the Red Horse", "Sad Dance", "A Night in the Winter of 1973", and "Goddess Peak". "Goddess Peak" is a modern love story. Hua Yue and Li Yong, two lovers, take a boat up the river with their infinite yearning for the Goddess Peak above the Three Gorges. On the boat, the appearance of mature man Lao Cui makes this journey particularly interesting and makes the direction of love confusing.

The selected collection of Su Tong's works released this time (a set of 13 volumes in total) is a new and authoritative version launched by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House in 2020. It combines Su Tong's classic works "Red Pink", "Mi" and "My Emperor's Life" Thirteen novellas and short stories including "Poppy House", "Cavalry", "Why Snakes Fly", "Taming a Child", "Wu Zetian", "Northern Zone", "Bodhisattva Barbarian", "Tattoo Age", "Goddess Peak" and "Sunflower" are included. "Red Pink": "Red Pink" is a story about a prostitute. The willful and cowardly Xiaoe, the strong and calm Qiuyi. There is also a man surrounding them - Lao Pu. Every character in this story has a graceful relationship and destiny, and in the end they converge into a tragic song about women. Under the control of fate, no one is exempt. These women have all lost to fate. The film adaptation of "Pink", directed by Li Shaohong and starring Wang Ji, Wang Zhiwen and He Saifei, caused a sensation among the audience. This collection of novellas includes five classic novellas: "Pink", "Divorce Guide", "Married Man", "Calm Like Water" and "Hello, Beekeeper". "Mi": "Mi" tells the story of the protagonist Wu Long's life journey of escaping from hunger and poverty, accompanied by the decadence of three generations of a family, the entanglement and conflict between the countryside and the city, and falling into the trap of sexual desire as his appetite is satisfied. The five dragons came for "rice" and finally died on the pile of rice on the train back home. The whole novel is full of pleasure to read and contains many deep meanings. "Rice" was adapted into the movie "Dahong Rice Store", which became a very controversial work in the history of Chinese film. ...

This book is a collection of Su Tong's novellas, including five classic novellas: "The Age of Tattoos", "The Shu Brothers", "The Fall of the South", "The Burning Sky" and "Minfengli". The fate and tragedy of Xiaoguai in "The Age of Tattoos" are unforgettable under Su Tong's writing style, which is full of beauty and ghostly imagination. This is not a likeable person, he represents hatred and bigotry. This kind of hatred and bigotry threatens the established life order, and most people are the beneficiaries of this order; on the other hand, we cannot reject the possibility suggested by "Xiaoguai".

24 years of life, mixed with joys and sorrows, separation and separation, the growth of a small person, a small heart, a vast world, a memoir of an ordinary person's 24 years of life

This book is a collection of Su Tong's novellas, including five classic novellas: "Red Pink", "Divorce Guide", "Married Man", "Calm Like Water" and "Hello, Beekeeper". "Pink" is a story about a prostitute. The willful and cowardly Xiaoe, the strong and calm Qiuyi. There is also a man surrounding them, Lao Pu. Every character in this story composes a woman's tragedy in the end. Under the control of fate, no one is exempt. These women have all lost to fate. The film adapted from "Pink", directed by Li Shaohong and starring Wang Ji, Wang Zhiwen and He Saifei, caused a sensation among the audience.

"Rice" tells the story of the protagonist Wu Long's life journey of escaping from hunger and poverty, accompanied by the decadence of three generations of a family, the entanglement and conflict between the countryside and the city, and falling into the trap of sexual desire as his appetite is satisfied. The five dragons came for "rice" and finally died on the pile of rice on the train back home. The whole novel is full of pleasure to read and contains many deep meanings. "Rice" was adapted into the movie "Dahong Rice Store", which became a very controversial work in the history of Chinese film.

"Why Snakes Fly" is an important novel written by Su Tong after "My Life as an Emperor", "Wu Zetian" and "Mi". It is a breakthrough exploration. In this novel, Su Tong breaks away from the history and hometown he usually narrates, and casts his gaze on the current society: a blond girl from the north stayed in a train station hotel, and as she screamed in the bathroom, a snake disaster suddenly broke out in the city, and there were chaotic snakes everywhere. Keyuan, a social worker, worked hard to collect debts and forced his life... Surrounding the small people living and interacting around the train station, Su Tong began to think about the fate of a group of small people abandoned by society.

"Poppy House" depicts the changes of a landlord family in Fengyangshu Village before 1949. Liu Chencao is the most complex character in the novel. The description of Liu Chencao's birth laid the foundation for the entire novel early on. The author casually said through the maid's words: "That's Chen Mao's seed." That's it. From then on, the deformed and morbid relationships between the characters in the novel were revealed as if they were peeling off cocoons. This collection of novellas includes four classic novellas: "Poppy House", "Nineteen Rooms", "Three Lamps" and "The Escape of 1934".

The fate and tragedy of Xiaoguai in "The Age of Tattoos" are unforgettable under Su Tong's writing style, which is full of beauty and ghostly imagination. This is not a likeable person, he represents hatred and bigotry. This kind of hatred and bigotry threatens the established life order, and most people are the beneficiaries of this order; on the other hand, we cannot reject the possibility suggested by "Xiaoguai". This collection of novellas includes five classic novellas: "The Age of Tattoos", "The Shu Brothers", "The Fall of the South", "The Burning Sky" and "Minfengli".

Su Tong is the undoubted king of Chinese short stories. He is a man with dreams, a writer who can create worlds in words. He used a kind of gentle rebellion, elegant imagination and the perceptual beauty of words to construct a rich and vast literary kingdom for himself, and thus marked the height that contemporary China has reached in terms of literary fiction and spiritual imagination. "Sunflower" collects important short stories in his creative history, showing Su Tong's literary charm.

The narration of Su Tong's novels is elegant and calm, pure as water, written plainly but full of meaning; the writing is elegant and full of Jiangnan sentiment; the narrative and lyricism are perfectly combined, and the writing style is unique. "The Taming of Children" is another masterpiece of his, which includes novellas such as "Spring in the Meat Factory", "Osmanthus Chain Group", "The Taming of Children" and "Letter from the Masses".

Su Tong is the undoubted king of Chinese short stories. He is a man with dreams, a writer who can create worlds in words. He used a kind of gentle rebellion, elegant imagination and the perceptual beauty of words to construct a rich and vast literary kingdom for himself, and thus marked the height that contemporary China has reached in terms of literary fiction and spiritual imagination. "Goddess Peak" collects important short stories in his creative history, showing Su Tong's literary charm.

This book describes a group of teenagers living in the north of the city. Their youth has not yet had time to open up, and they rush towards the end of their lives. It tells the story of the coldness and sadness of the sunshine of a bygone era. Compared with Yu Hua, who focuses on the depiction of young people's inner feelings, Su Tong, who has always been known for his beautiful images, is more willing to use independent images to realize his ideals that he has already realized or that are too late to realize.

This is a story told by an undead that happened in a civilian home in the south. It is the story of a traditional Chinese family. The story takes place from the 1960s to the 1980s. Su Tong said: "I wrote about a crying ghost. He didn't know why he was suffering this way. Later, he didn't want to care about the affairs of the world. He went to hell, leaving greater loneliness to others, to me, to all of us... So I wrote "The Bodhisattva Man"." This is Su Tong's novel with the characteristics of magical realism.

"My Life as an Emperor" is a historical novel created by Su Tongxiu using realistic techniques and modern techniques. It is also a historical story in which Su Tong used his creative imagination to build a palace at will and blended it according to his own formula. The characters of the era and dynasty are all fictitious, but the stories told are real and believable. The work adopts a first-person narrative throughout, telling the story of an ignorant prince named Duan Bai, who became the puppet king of Xie State under the control of the old queen mother's desire for power. Although he had the power of life and death over his subjects, he lived in fear and anxiety all the time. He was a political tool used by his grandmother and mother. He wanted to resist but was unable to do so. A person who should not be an emperor, a person who has no ambition to be an emperor and is incapable of being an emperor became the emperor. No wonder Duan Bai and the crazy old palace servant Sun Xin repeated an ominous saying again and again, and the disaster of the country was coming! Disaster will strike at any time, and Duan Bai has always had a deep shadow in his heart, so he is sad and helpless. The whole novel is full of elegiac sentimentality, and is poignant.

Su Tong is an extremely talented writer with one-of-a-kind sensibility and imagination. He uses delicate and ghostly words to depict the tortuous fate of Wu Zetian, the most powerful woman in Chinese history, hinting at the bloodshed, cruelty and heaviness of history. The compassionate and imaginative words of "Wu Zetian" restore historical details and create emotional resonance for readers.

"Pink" is a story about a prostitute. The willful and cowardly Xiaoe, the strong and calm Qiuyi. There is also a man surrounding them, Lao Pu. Every character in this story composes a woman's tragedy in the end. Under the control of fate, no one is exempt. These women have all lost to fate. The film adaptation of "Pink", directed by Li Shaohong and starring Wang Ji, Wang Zhiwen and He Saifei, caused a sensation among the audience. This collection of novellas includes five classic novellas: "Pink", "Divorce Guide", "Married Man", "Calm Like Water" and "Hello, Beekeeper".

The novel mainly tells the story of "Ku Wenxuan", a descendant of a martyr. During the Cultural Revolution, his title as a martyr was questioned by many, so he cut off his penis after being accused of having style problems. In order for his father who left the river bank to be together with his grandmother's monument forever, Ku Wenxuan's son Ku Dongliang carried the monument symbolizing the glory of history onto the boat. Amid the cries of criticism from people on the shore, Ku Wenxuan threw himself into the river and committed suicide. The story shows the absurd fate of father and son Ku Wenxuan and Ku Dongliang, as well as the humbleness and tenacity of life.

The novel revolves around the development and changes on both sides of the urban-suburban junction in the Xianshuitang area, describing the joys and sorrows of love, hate, and joy that occur in this land in the south. The saltwater pond is surrounded by rural areas on one side and cities on the other. Decades of entanglement over the fate of two families and three generations bounded by the pond disappeared as the colorful sky over the saltwater pond disappeared. The novel was written in the mid-1970s. My (Deng Chaoyang) mother Pu Zhaodi went to Xiao Carpenter's house in Tangxi to ask for an explanation because of the whereabouts of her mother-in-law's coffin. This started the various intersections between the Pu Zhaodi family in the east of Tangdong and the Huang Zhaodi family in the west of Tangxi for decades. The birth of his younger brother Deng Dongsheng and his absurd behavior, as well as the disappearance of Huang Zhaodi's son Haofu, once again caused waves. Times are changing with each passing day, which has affected the fate of people in the east and west of Tangtang. The cement factory, carbon black factory, and sulfuric acid factory that symbolized various weather conditions have closed down one after another. The salt water pond has ushered in good weather, and the two families have therefore taken completely different paths. The subject matter of the novel is closely related to the reality of Chinese society, from cremation reforms, health campaigns, and the elimination of feudal superstitions, to changes in production methods, the rise and fall of enterprises, and drastic changes in urban and rural areas. Through each of the wonderful and magnificent stories, it reflects the vicissitudes of an era and generations.

This book is a novel adapted from the legend of Meng Jiangnu crying at the Great Wall. When Meng Jiangnu learned that her husband's bones had been buried under the Great Wall, she cried so loudly that the Great Wall collapsed. By describing the hardships and dangers that Meng Jiangnu went through on her way to deliver the clothes, she showed the tenacity of women and the rebellious spirit of the people at the bottom. This book was previously published by our publisher in November 2014. This publication mainly involves a more in-depth verification and revision of the text.

"Nineteen Rooms" edited by Lin Jianfa is one of the classic series of self-selected student readings by famous writers. "Nineteen Rooms" contains some of his representative works. Most of his novels present an elegant, feminine, yet desolate and cold style. Underneath the beautiful images are the smell of death and disturbing conspiracy. It can be regarded as a sample of all Su Tong's novels. This is the secret of Su Tong's work, a beautiful dance that brings misfortune like a witch.