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Like Zhang Ailing, the Hong Kong female writer Wu Xubin, who also impressed Liu Yichang, reached new heights in modern Chinese writing. Her authentic and elegant prose evokes a love of life and faith in modern Chinese classics. This book, featured for the first time on the 40th anniversary of its first edition, is titled "Her novels are raw and unadorned, and the qualities she believed in are ancient and solemn."
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✨Editor's Recommendation⿻ Wu Xubin's writing is uniquely "simple and profound, meticulously crafting every word and sentence," showcasing the heights and purity of linguistic attainments in Hong Kong literature. With his uniquely humble, serene, rich, and moving style, he depicts imagined natural landscapes and the pursuit of ultimate things, preserving a naive and unsophisticated interest and philosophical reflection.
As a scholar of ecology, the author, "unlike the previously overtly urban character of Hong Kong literature," explores a new dimension of attention to nature, offering a deeper exploration of the conflict and reconciliation between civilization, nature, and life. Through the eyes of a child, she takes us into the wilderness, jungle, and mountains, allowing us to experience the ancient and solemn cycle of life's rise and fall, and of death and slaughter.
Wu Xubin is a representative figure among Hong Kong's female writers. Her works have a metaphysical height that transcends gender, while her writing is also delicate and warm like a woman, calling out love and faith in life everywhere.
⿻Her novels do not win by plot, but by using poetic language and classical elements to express the flow of consciousness, blending the natural atmosphere with the inner landscape, making readers indulge in it and gain aesthetic enjoyment.
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"Ox," first published in 1980 by Suye Publishing House, contains nine short stories. A 2016 reprint by Oxford University Press adds "The Letter" and "An Indian Fainted by a Pond." This book, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the original publication, has been revised by the author to include "The Bat" and an afterword. The book contains 11 stories in total, with a preface by Liu Yichang and an epilogue by Liang Bingjun.
The novels mostly focus on the relationship between nature and humans, are full of spirituality, and are written in beautiful language.
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✨Celebrity Recommendation: Wu Xubin's novels not only depict the surface of reality but also reveal its inner essence. She writes of seas that are "not always turquoise." She writes of mountains that "vanished overnight." She writes of "beautiful and strange stones." She appears to be someone who believes in the laws of nature. Her explorations of "life and death," "humanity's ancient childhood," and "the vast home"—even "far from the universe"—remain grounded in the essence of nature.
The vast sea of ​​modern Chinese short stories, however, offers a unique style like "The Hunter" and "The Ox," which are rare. Reading "The Golden Lock," I was struck by the intelligence displayed by Eileen Chang in her novels. Reading "The Hunter" and "The Ox," I was equally struck by the intelligence displayed by Wu Xubin in his novels. Eileen Chang is a red flower amidst the green, possessing a unique expressive style in her fiction. Wu Xubin's novels, though few in number, often offer a sense of freshness. The two share only one similarity: their uniqueness.
Renowned Hong Kong novelist and editor Liu Yichang and Wu Xubin may not have many works, but their writing is elegant and profound, creating a unique and distinctive style within the tradition of modern Chinese fiction. The allure of her novels has always come from the words themselves; the reader feels the author's attentiveness to each word, imbued with personal feeling. It is her unique worldview that sets her writing apart from the norm.
...is indeed one of the few things that can give us warmth and hope.
——Hong Kong writer Liang Bingjun (Ye Si)
The most intriguing is Wu Xubin's "An Indian Fainted by the Pool", which profiles a brief encounter between an American student and an Indian on campus. At first glance, it has nothing to do with Hong Kong, but in the author's calm narrative, the issues of race, colonization, language, culture, and dispersion are slowly revealed, and finally a sense of sadness arises: in postmodern (Hong Kong) society, who doesn't have a lonely Indian in their heart?
-- Harvard University professors Wang Dewei and Wu Xubin, her name will surely be recorded in the history of modern Chinese literature. Her outstanding novels, her pure art, and her exploration of spiritual realms that are increasingly rare in Chinese literature will surely make her and her works immortal.
——Famous painter, early modern poet and novelist Li Weiling Wu Xubin's narrative discourse is modernist, but her spiritual journey and suffering are classical. The loss of paradise is the reason for the existence of literature. As she shows, this will be an endless pursuit.
——Chen Lifen, Associate Professor of the Department of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a scholar of comparative literature. She understood that nature has destructive power, and therefore felt the need to break away from the old nostalgic sentiment towards nature and instead depict a new relationship between man and nature.
——Dr. Tam Yinuo, lecturer at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, has a respect for life and a love for nature. She observes and experiences the world around her with humility and silence. She uses an attitude close to animal behavior, combined with a writer's sensitivity and imagination, to observe and describe the people and things she has seen.
—Li Xiaocong, former Associate Head of the Department of Chinese at the Education University of Hong Kong. She often reveals unfamiliar sensations within the familiar, or simply guides us to see things far away. It’s not just the content that’s worth savoring, but also the gestures of revealing and guiding.
—Fan Shanbiao, Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature and Director of the Hong Kong Literature Research Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The characters in Wu Xubin's novels aren't seeking a nature opposed to civilization; they cast themselves between past and future, becoming one with the cycle of life. To capture this broad nature that transcends time, space, and species, Wu Xubin imbues his text with color, light, shadow, and image, constructing a unique fictional world with a distinctive sense of language and literary style.
——Huang Zongjie, professor of the Department of Chinese Literature at National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan. At the end of the last century, I rediscovered Wu Xubin’s most avant-garde side through the 1987 edition of "Wu Xubin's Novels: An Indian Fainted by the Pool" published by Taiwan Dongda Book Company in a used bookstore.
— Liao Weitang, Hong Kong writer, photographer, and freelance writer

2020-11-01

九州出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

176

9787510893445