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The novella collection "Honeysuckle" consists of five novellas: "The Promise of Love", "Tears on the Emerald", "Economic Guardian", "Honeysuckle" and "Water of Forgetfulness". "Love" tells the tortuous story of the love between young teacher Pan Jianming and his student Yu Bing; "Tears" tells the unfortunate marriage experience of Yang Xiaoxia, an orphan orphaned by the Tangshan earthquake; "Economic Guardian" tells It tells the story of an auditor who uncovered a case in which the person in charge of a bankrupt company embezzled huge amounts of national property; "Honeysuckle" tells the story of patriotic young students in Peking during the Anti-Japanese War who actively participated in the anti-Japanese war; "Water Forgetting Love" uses magical realism to describe the story of Zhen Xue and her husband Wei Shan rediscovering themselves after experiencing a love accident. The novel's language is fluent and full of emotions, making it a long-lasting aftertaste.

This book is titled "Selected Short Stories by Xu Kun (Chinese-English)", including the short stories "Kitchen" and "Encountering Love", and the novella "Young Friends Come to Meet". Xu Kun is the deputy editor-in-chief of "People's Literature" magazine. He has published more than 5 million words of works and won the second Lu Xun Literature Award and the first Feng Mu Award. The translations of the selected works in this book were revised eight times and polished many times by Canadian writer Dougals Roy. They were highly praised by the editor-in-chief of the famous literary journal "Asia Literary Review". It can be used as a teaching material for translation majors in colleges and universities, as a reading list for students taking postgraduate entrance examinations, and as extracurricular reading for students.

This book contains six novellas published in "People's Literature", "Contemporary" and "Chinese Writers" during the two years when the author first entered the literary world from 1994 to 1995: "Vernacular", "Bad Talk", "Pioneer", "Hot Dog", "Sir" and "Gita". Mr. Wang Meng personally wrote the preface to the book "After the novel", he said: "After this, then that, after, after, after, everything is 'after', and only the novel is left. So Xu Kun came into being. Although she is a female streamer, she can be called a 'big brother' Kan'. Although he is young, he is really old. Although he is a scholar, he has been playing with knowledge at his fingertips. Although he is a rookie, his writing is full of indifference (read stingy), and the sky is dark and the earth is dark when he swings it.

This book re-collects the author's most influential short and medium-sized stories published over the past 20 years, such as "Kitchen", which won the second Lu Xun Literature Award, "Football on a Dog's Day", "Encountering Love", "Good Morning Beijing", "Last Tango in the Midnight Square" and "Tongtian River", which won the "Hundred Flowers Award" of the "Novel Monthly" popular selection for five consecutive years, "Guano" and "A Dog Named Renren", which won the "Selected Novels" and "Chinese Writers" awards.

This book re-collects the essence of the prose essays written by the author over the years, such as "The Clouds and Winds of Macao" which won the "Macao in My Heart" Global Chinese Essay Competition held by the Macao Foundation in 2014, and has been included in the Chinese extracurricular tutoring for middle school students in Jiangxi Province. "Spring on Mingyue Mountain" and other works published in "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily" and "Literary News", as well as a series of character sketches published on the back cover of "Youth Literature", and a personal column "Qing Qi Qian Kun" in the "New Year Evening News".

The novel tells a love story that took place in Beijing. It tells the story of a group of new immigrants who were born in the 1960s and came to Beijing with dreams after graduating from college in the 1980s. It writes about the growth and pain of the generation of literary and artistic youth born in the 1960s. Because of the author's semi-autobiographical tone, it was hailed by critics as a "heartbreaking" work and received great response from young readers.