Dear Readers,
With the bells of 2022,
We've been together for another year.
First of all, I wish you all a Happy New Year!
Looking back on 2021, literature gives us strength and surprises,
We also do our best to disseminate it to every reader.
Thanks to the companionship of readers, let us have more courage,
Feel warm.
On the occasion of retiring the old and welcoming the new, let us take stock of the wonderful year of 2021,
Come and welcome the new 2022!
Contemporary, No. 1-6, 2021
Contemporary, No. 1, 2021
Novel
Won the first prize of the "Contemporary" Literary Rally in 2021
As another novel launched after Liang Xiaosheng won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award, "My Life and Me" still adheres to the writer's consistent civilian stance, and on the basis of closely combining personal destiny with urban development and the characteristics of the times, successfully writes and expresses the true life and spiritual trajectory of the early Shenzhen people who entered the city by immigration, which can be said to be a social novel with obvious growth novel meaning. Starting from a humanistic spiritual standpoint, the writer deeply thinks about the deep entanglement of the individual and his destiny through the struggle stories of the protagonist and his friends. Reading can not only make the reader feel moved, but also trigger the reader to think deeply about life.
——Wang Chunlin, editor-in-chief of Novel Review
"Me and My Life", People's Literature Publishing House, January 2021 edition
It was selected as the list of good books in literature, the list of good books in the middle edition, the 2021 New Year book list of Sohu Culture, and the top 20 good books of the People's Literature Publishing House in 2021
Short and medium stories
"Novel Monthly" 2021 No. 3, "Sinan Literature Anthology" 2021 No. 3, "Yangtze River Literature and Art • Good Novel" 2021 No. 3 selection
Selected into the 2021 Novella List of the Chinese Novella Society and shortlisted for the 2021 Harvest Literature List (Novella)
Included in the author's novel collection of the same name, People's Literature Publishing House, February 2021 edition
It was selected as the "China Good Book" Monthly List, the Literary Good Book List, the Chinese Edition Good Book List, the Reading Article Searchlight Book Critics Good Book List, the Jingbao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Book Review Annual Top Ten Good Books and Mid-year List, the 2021 Literary Good Books of China Reading Newspaper, and the 2021 Top 20 Good Books of the People's Literature Publishing House
Included in the author's novel collection "Fat Dreams"
Talk
Contemporary, No. 2, 2021
Won the second prize of the Contemporary Literary Rally in 2021
Selected Novels, No. 4, 2021
It was selected into the 2021 novel list of the Chinese Novel Society
As the finale of Chen Yan's "stage trilogy", like "Loading Stage" and "Protagonist", "Comedy" is also read as an "allegorical novel". There are three main meanings: one is what is the meaning of the "Tao" carried by comedy; one is how to properly handle the relationship between comedy skills and the times, society, and aesthetic fashions of the period; and one is how comedians, as the main body of artistic creation, deal with the complex relationship between the self and the "Tao" and "skill" and reality. With a detailed exposition of the artistic choices and encounters of the two generations of Fire Burning Heaven, He Jiabei and He Torch father and son in different eras, Chen Yan expressed his in-depth thinking and artistic treatment of "comedy". The significance of this kind of thinking is not limited to the personal cultivation of comedians, but contains the subject's handling of the relationship between the self and the times and traditions, so as to complete the important principles and approaches to the cultivation of personal personality. Such an approach can also lead to a more general basic path of national cultural spirit returning to the basics.
——Critic Yang Hui
The author Song Xiaozi won the nomination award of the 4th Mao Dun Newcomer Award
Selected Novels, No. 5, 2021
Xinjiang writing is often rough and grand, with the vastness and coldness of desert, Gobi and snow-capped mountains, but "Imaginary Flowers" is romantic and delicate, with the tenderness and sadness of the smoke and rain of Jiangnan. The Hongyan biography that travels between the frontier and Shanghai constructs a sense of space for the story, and also sows the seeds of tragedy, a fictional snow lotus, which affects the hearts and minds of thousands of young people in Shanghai. Deserts and oases are only one step away, but Xuelian from northern Xinjiang to southern Xinjiang, from southern Xinjiang to Shanghai, has to cross thousands of mountains and rivers, through time and tribulations, seemingly simple physical difficulty, but in fact is due to the limitations of the times. Zhang Zhi uses a light and bookish pen and ink to create a love lament on the desert, and behind the obsessive protagonist is the natural selection and historical inevitability of personal encounters in that era.
——Commentary on Selected Novels
Selected from The Novel Monthly, Big Character Edition, No. 5, 2021
"Novel Monthly" 2021 medium-length special issue of three issues of selection
Contemporary, No. 3, 2021
Documentary: The 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China
Won the third prize of the "Contemporary" Literary Rally in 2021
Selected from Xinhua Digest, No. 19, 2021
"Backing the Mountain" is like a huge mountain range, the pulse of revolution, the pulse of a political party, and the vein of literature. This book not only represents a new height in the creation of Iron Stream, but also represents the height that our theme creation and reportage literature can reach today.
——Shi Zhanjun, editor-in-chief of People's Literature
"Patron", People's Literature Publishing House, June 2021 edition
It was selected into the "China Good Books" monthly list, the Special List of Good Books in the Chinese Edition to pay tribute to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and the Top 20 Good Books of the People's Literature Publishing House in 2021
Income is the same as the list
With sincere feelings and affectionate strokes, the author of "The Long March of a Lifetime" recounts the life course of Yu Jie in the nineteen years after returning to his hometown in 1970. Countless vivid details record the true character of Yu Jie's original heart and ability to be a revolutionary, and describe his simple life, simple emotions, and the feelings and ethics of revolutionaries who are concerned about their fathers and elders in his hometown, which is a touching and profound literary masterpiece.
——Critic Meng Fanhua
Selected from The Novel Monthly, No. 7, 2021
chronicle
Contemporary, No. 4, 2021
Won the fourth prize of the Contemporary Literary Rally in 2021
Thomas Arthur Bisen, author of "1937, Yan'an Dialogue", was the second wave of Americans who went to Yan'an and the Northern Shaanxi Soviet Region after Snow to "explore" ... The day they interviewed Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Zhou Enlai in Yan'an was June 23, 1937, which was a very important time. On July 2, 1937, Bi Sen and his party returned to Beiping, and five days later, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and the all-out war of resistance between the Chinese people began.
Such a trip determines the special historical value carried by "1937, Yan'an Dialogue". It truly records what the researchers of the US situation saw and heard in Yan'an at the last moment before the arrival of the all-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression of the Chinese; it truly records the important policy decisions and political declarations made by the principal leaders of the Communist Party of China at the last moment before the arrival of the all-out War of Resistance; and truly records the various systems and policies implemented by the Soviet region of northern Shaanxi under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the spiritual outlook of the people at the moment when the all-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression arrived.
——Chen Jin, Vice President of the Chinese Communist Party Literature Research Association
1937, Yan'an Dialogue, People's Literature Publishing House, June 2021
It was selected into the "China Good Books" Monthly List, the Central Propaganda Department's "Book Screening Centennial Great" Recommended Reading List, Tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Edition Good Book List, and the People's Literature Publishing House's 2021 Top 20 Good Books
Long documentary
The monograph will be launched by the People's Literature Publishing House
Selected Novels, No. 9, 2021, Novel Monthly, No. 9, 2021, and Selected Novellas, No. 5, 2021
A rainstorm, an exclamation point in the wind, a tree with broken windows, a night wind, darkness, Yao Emei's language feeling and narrative rhythm are extremely recognizable, and the flying and wanton subtitles lead to the pauses and ups and downs of the plot, a love affair that you love and I wish, a happy family, and finally a conspiracy that is deliberate. In the weightless marriage, the wife Cheng Jie's beast fight, the husband Dr. Feng's moral appearance is human and animal heart, the single and vulnerable woman Xiao Wei's ignorant fall, the novel explores the extreme trend of marriage and family and gender relations, the wind cannot blow into Xiao Wei's home, and the tentacles of temptation are infinitely close to the boundaries of human nature. The branches that stretched into the room stopped growing, the door in the hidden corner closed forever, and the long wind swept away the filthy impurities of life, and Yao Emei showed the position of literature and art and the power of language and writing.
Included in the author's novel collection "Family Life", People's Literature Publishing House, February 2021 edition (the novel collection is titled "Skeleton in the Cabinet")
Selected for Douban 2021 Annual Reading List · Chinese Literature (Novel Category)
Contemporary, No. 5, 2021
Won the fifth prize of the Contemporary Literary Rally in 2021
Selected Novels, No. 1, 2022
Shortlisted for the 2021 Harvest Literature List (novels)
Fan Wen returned to the land south of caiyun. He is the writer of this land, and the person who loves the earth must also be a "cloud collector", the clouds and the wind and rain and the sunshine above the earth, which is the complex expression of the earth, and it is the earth that projects its own drama and legend to the heavens. He returned to his original broad anthropological vision, he put the events of this era back to the earth, he told the story not only about this moment, but he wanted to make the scenery and storms of this moment get an ancient epic weather.
——Li Jingze, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association
"The Sun Turns", People's Literature Publishing House, November 2021 edition
It was selected into the monthly list of "China's Good Books", the recommended reading list of the "Centennial Great Cause of Book Screening" of the Central Propaganda Department, and the Top 20 Best Books of the People's Literature Publishing House in 2021
Included in the author's novel "Changting Town"
Selected in Beijing Literature Novella Monthly, No. 11, 2021
Included in the author's novel collection "Ghee and Spicy Scalding", People's Literature Publishing House, August 2021 edition
Sun Rui became famous for his young adult novels, and his recent novellas embody the qualities of a mature writer. The understanding of life and life is unique, and the ability to think deeply is maintained in generosity, and it can write abstract situations through brushstrokes close to reality.
——Shi Yifeng, deputy editor of Contemporary and novelist
Contemporary, No. 6, 2021
Feng Jicai's new work
Won the sixth prize of the "Contemporary" Literary Rally in 2021
Selected Novels, No. 12, 2021, Selected Novellas, No. 1, 2022, and Novel Monthly, Big Character Edition, No. 1, 2022
Selected from the First Issue of Novel Monthly in 2022
Shortlisted for the inaugural Phoenix Literary Award
Included in the author's novel collection "The New Age"
Contemporary Column for 2021
The 70th Anniversary of People's Literature Publishing Co., Ltd.
The Forbidden City talks about art
Zhu Yong, "This Peace of Mind is My Hometown" (Issue 1) (plus link)
Zhu Yong,"Heart Like a Pillar" (Issue 2) (plus link)
Zhu Yong, "There Is No Border in His World" (Issue 3) (plus link)
Zhu Yong,"Picking the Lamp to See the Sword Xin Abandoning Disease" (No. 5)
Included in the author's "Calligraphy Flow of the Forbidden City", People's Literature Publishing House, June 2021 edition
Talk about calligraphy figures from past generations
Selected from Writers' Digest on July 23, 2021 (titled "Xie An, the Perfect Calligrapher")
Selected Contemporary Novels, No. 1-6, 2021
"The Mountains Roaring", People's Literature Publishing House, January 2021 edition
It was selected as one of the top 20 best books in 2021 by the People's Literature Publishing House
The novel "Roaring Mountains" writes about the twists and turns of the revolutionary historical process in the Dabie Mountains region from the late Qing Dynasty to the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression for more than half a century. The structure of the novel does not employ a linear plot story, but instead uses a character-centered, lumpy narrative. On the one hand, it highlights the shaping of the character image, the character drives the story, and the two generations of revolutionaries of "Grandpa" He Wenxian and "Great Uncle" He Tingyong finally historically merged under the situation of the Anti-Japanese War and completed the convergence of spiritual beliefs. The novel adopts the narrative perspective of "I", the fourth generation of the He family, and connects the beliefs, ideals, characters, and stories of the revolutionary era with the current era through the narration and retrospection of "I", so that the legitimacy, complexity, suffering and arduousness of history have important practical cognition and enlightening significance.
——Critic Chen Zhenhua
"Northland", People's Literature Publishing House, July 2021 edition
It was selected into the "China Good Books" Monthly List, the Central Propaganda Department's "Book Screening Centennial Great" Recommended Reading List, and the Chinese Edition Good Book List
Chang Kexun, the protagonist of "Northland", has worked in the small town of Baihe in the Northland for forty years, and the changes in his work, the ups and downs of life and the fluctuations of emotions are like paintbrushes of different colors, depicting a vivid image of a northland builder. A generation of northern land builders represented by Chang Kexun relied on firm ideals and convictions and unremitting efforts to struggle, and finally transformed the northern wasteland from a wasteland with a large wasteland, a herd of wild wolves, and inconvenient transportation into a northern wilderness with neat fields, smoke cooking, developed transportation, and a rich and beautiful life for people. The novel allows individuals and times to meet in the north, composing a moving chapter of the times.
——Critic Han Chuanxi
"Golden Branch", People's Literature Publishing House, January 2021 edition
The poet Auden once said, "One of the hallmarks of a book's literary value is that it can be read in a variety of different ways." "I think 'Golden Branch' is such a book, we can read the scars left by the great changes in modern history on traditional family ethics; we can see the book of painful and difficult women's lives covered up in the name of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves"; we can read how an intellectual woman understands the history of her father's generation; we can see the difference between urban and rural areas in the process of modern society, and it is also possible to build a bridge for a future of self-improvement. This work makes the shattered past poetic, and like an elegy, singing about the vanished history and countryside.
——Critic Chen Xiaoming
Selected Novels, No. 1 and No. 2, 2022
Presenting the workers' group on the literary stage is the dream of the author Ah Ying. Especially in the early days of the founding of New China, several generations of workers struggled hard, overcame difficulties, kept improving, and had the courage to dedicate, adding a chapter of great color to the history of the Republic. But on the stage of literature and art, their images are relatively small. What "Chang'an" has to do is to restore their flesh and blood, so that readers can experience the construction heat wave they have bathed in, the hardships they have experienced, and the success they have won. The novel begins with the First Five-Year Plan and writes until 1978, when the curtain of reform and opening up was launched, in the context of China's modern industrial development, it wrote a magnificent "entrepreneurial history" of China's socialist heavy industry.
The first works of "Contemporary" and the new works of "Contemporary" authors
Li Xiuwen, "Poetry Comes to See Me", People's Literature Publishing House, March 2021 edition
Included in the 2020 Contemporary "Poetry Comes to See Me" column
Won the 2020 Essay Championship in the Contemporary Literature Rally
The writer connects the ancient poems of the ancients with the current individual life and life encounters, perceives the courage and sincerity that arises from the struggle in life in each person, marches deeper into history with the temperature of intimate self-care, enters the world of Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi, Yuan Shu, Luo Yin and others, writes about their helplessness and sighs in the rivers and lakes, writes about their struggles and hardships in the cage, not only shows the painstaking efforts and paths of these poems for today's people, but also realizes their unspoken feelings of life. Through these ancient poems, the writer tries to taste the hearts of the ancients with his own true disposition, to see through the vastness of life in the past and the present, and to explore the true essence of the articles.
——Award speech of the Literary Rally of Contemporary Times
Qin Bei's "Return to the Heart", People's Literature Publishing House, March 2021 edition
It was selected as the key publication of the 2021 theme publication of the Propaganda Department, the monthly list of "China's Good Books", and the list of good books in the Chinese edition
His work was first published in Contemporary, No. 2, 2020
Qin Bei's novel "Return to the Heart" takes technical engineer Ye Mingyi as the protagonist, connecting the enmity and hatred between business giants and technical strongmen on both sides of the strait, as well as the cooperation between giant enterprises, witnessing the current critical moment in the development of China's chip manufacturing industry. The author uses chips to manufacture this industry that needs to be accurate to "nano", looks at the changes in daily life, nations, countries, and the world, sees "infinitely large" in "infinite small", and discovers literature from things that are really related to personal destiny and great changes in the times. It reminds literary creators that daily life is by no means the only source of literary creation, and there are more stories in all walks of life that embody the spirit of the times and make people shoot cases to be excavated.
——Critic Liu Shiyu
Zhang Ming,"Ballad of Spring Mountain", People's Literature Publishing House, March 2021
Selected for the Reading Articles Searchlight Book Critics Good Book List
The author has published the novel "Three Cities" in Contemporary
"Ballad of Spring Mountain" is the second part of Zhang Ming's long trilogy after "Three Cities". Zhang Ming, who created cross-border novels as a critic, mobilized his abundant experience reserves to remove the simple narrative of Mannerism and recount the life passages that thousands of intellectual young people who went to the countryside half a century ago. The novel takes the spring mountain ridge as a slice, goes deep into the texture of the countryside and the folds of the years, listens to the sound of fate mixed between the crevices of the horn and the gong and drum, the heartbeat in the steep places, the monologue on the way, the dialogue when it is ignorant, stirs up the noise of the calm time, and the lingering sigh after the end of the song. Rejecting ready-made tunes of "suffering," "scars," or "unrepentant youth," he portrays, in a way that is faithful to the novel, how these young souls struggled to grasp their lives in the web of intricate times.
——Xu Chenliang, executive editor of Contemporary
Cheng Qing's "Feast", People's Literature Publishing House, May 2021 edition
His work was first published in Contemporary, No. 5, 2020
"Feast" gracefully avoids those old story routines, creates its own grand scene, and opens up a new realm of fiction. The writer avoids the common path of dealing with similar subjects, chooses this group is almost the most beautiful aspect, and writes about its flowers and feasts, as well as withering and ending. The work is like a jade object polished by the writer with great care, and finally ends in fragmentation. But this jade shattering sound is not a sonorous and frightening sound, but like a flower in the night quietly withering. The novel adopts the classical structure of "gathering and dispersing", which points to the generation and destruction of all beautiful things, writes a history of the demise of romanticism, and writes a kind of mourning like a funeral flower of Daiyu, which goes beyond the specific scope of time and space, and has a broader aesthetic significance.
--Critic Li Mobo
Miao Wei, "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories", People's Literature Publishing House, August 2021 edition
His work was first published in Contemporary, No. 6, 2020
A man and a woman have reached the age when there is no reason not to marry, so the half-dry chai marries the tepid fire - the story begins with such a classic and cheesy balance structure. The syllogism, smoke, chocolate, and sad stories, is littered with desire suspended in mid-air (it has to be said that this suspension does bring a sense of luxury in fiction), as well as carefully selected substances and new knowledge. But you can always trust Miao Wei's rhythm and sense of language, and his ability to always sketch the right picture. He wrote about the lonely woman, who went to a meeting during the day and came back at night to see the dog she had no time to walk between the gap between the radiator and the wall, not going up and down, dying between curiosity and confusion; and then he wrote that the lonely man also had a dog, who was taken to the pool of the pet park by the owner who had time to play with him, and the lamp at the bottom of the pool leaked, and he failed to save the dog, and even failed to fight for decent compensation for it. If it were made into a movie, it would be a set of parallel cuts. Then you follow Miao Wei's rhythm down, and the next shot is that they are lying on the bed, unable to take care of their dogs, but "secretly vowing to take care of each other." Concise, smooth, never hesitate where you shouldn't pause, and then, like carrying a foot, you put a part of your body firmly and firmly.
——Writer Huang Yuning
Xu Guixiang, "Hero Mountain", People's Literature Publishing House, September 2021 edition
"Hero Mountain Ambush" was first released in Contemporary, No. 1, 2020
"Heroic Dream" has always been a huge driving force for Xu Guixiang's literary narrative of military themes, which is to find and present the spiritual wealth belonging to our nation from the historical memory of gunfire and smoke. "Hero Mountain" continues the spiritual core of "heroism" in his works such as "The Sky of History" and "Immediately Under the Heavens", and from the perspective of the two characters of "one light and one dark", in the cruelty and sacrifice of war, ponders personal fate, human nature background, integrates the feelings of home and country, highlights the heroic and fearless sacrifice spirit of communists and revolutionary fighters, strengthens the lofty revolutionary belief, and narrates a shocking heroic legend that has passed the test of war.
——Critic Wang Xueying
Xu Chunqiao, "The Next Stop Can't Stop", People's Literature Publishing House, December 2021 edition
The author has published novels such as "Love on the Roof" in "Contemporary"
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