On March 24th, the seminar on long-form reportage "Struggle and Glory - Narrative of Guangdong Xiaokang" jointly sponsored by the Innovation and Research Department of the China Writers Association, the Guangdong Writers Association and the Guangdong Publishing Group was held at the Guangdong Literature and Art Center, and a number of experts from Guangzhou, Beijing and other regions participated in the meeting in a combination of offline and online.
Peng Yun, deputy director of the Literature and Art Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, Li Jingze, member of the party leading group, vice chairman, and secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, Zhang Peizhong, secretary of the party leading group and full-time vice chairman of the Guangdong Writers Association, Tan Juntie, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of Guangdong Publishing Group Co., Ltd., and Huang Chuanhui, executive vice president of the China Reportage Society, and other leaders and experts attended the seminar.
The number one project of Literary Creation in Guangdong Province in recent years: "Struggle and Glory - The Narrative of Guangdong Well-off"
The work is written by Zhang Peizhong, the first volume of "Hundred Ends to Be Lifted" is responsible for Yu Jixin, Li Heng and Yao Zhongcai, the second volume of "Wind and Water Rises" is responsible for Wang October, He Long and Liu Jian, the third volume of "Overcoming Difficulties" is responsible for Chen Qiwen, Sheng Hui and Li Yanxin, and the fourth volume of "Chasing Dreams and Flying" is responsible for Zeng Pingbiao, Wang William and Chen Feng.
The 13 writers have continued to work hard for more than a year, repeatedly changed their manuscripts, repeatedly polished, and created this 4-volume 1 million-word long-form reportage, which was officially published by Huacheng Publishing House in December 2020.
With 1 million words, more than 600 vivid stories and more than 1,000 characters, Guangdong has drawn a "Qingming River Map" for building a well-off society in an all-round way.
A documentary work with a non-fictional aesthetic character
At the seminar, Li Jingze fully affirmed the literary value and social significance of "Struggle and Glory - The Narrative of Guangdong's Well-off".
He believes that the literary practice of Guangdong writers is in line with the great practice of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, strengthening literary conviction, abiding by integrity and innovation, using Guangdong's characteristic language and Guangdong expression methods to write endless people's epics, transforming the Chinese road, Chinese concept, and Chinese values into wonderful Chinese stories and plump artistic images, and paying tribute to the great practice and brilliant achievements of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way with fine works, and achieving gratifying creative results.
The participating experts analyzed and discussed the long-form reportage "Struggle and Glory - Guangdong Well-off Narrative" from the aspects of ideology, artistry, sociality and innovation.
Ding Xiaoyuan, vice president of the China Reportage Literature Society and editor-in-chief of Dongwu Academic, believes that "Struggle and Glory - The Narrative of Guangdong Xiaokang" is a grand people's epic, and it is also a documentary work with non-fiction aesthetic character that unifies the epic of the object of writing and the epic of the text narrative.
"This is a magnificent historical record of Guangdong's well-off road, and it is also an excellent achievement in expressing history with literary feelings and pen and ink experiences." Li Bingyin, executive vice president of the China Reportage Literature Society, believes that "Struggle and Glory - The Narrative of Guangdong Xiaokang" has the characteristics of being presented in a microscopic way in a macroscopic context, and has a strange effect like water droplets reflecting the sun.
The whole book closely follows the goal of "building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way", takes Guangdong as the main narrative point, supplemented by the macro background of the whole country, focuses on happiness, sense of gain, and security, refracts the changes of the times through the story of "ordinary people", shows the big theme with small incisions, refracts the changes of the times with the changes in the lives of the people, and profoundly reflects the extraordinary process of the party leading the people to create a better life.
The works are longitudinal and majestic, closely following the direction of the country's destiny, presenting a series of key and informative historical scenes and historical events with the hot land of southern Guangdong as the stage, explaining the historical inevitability of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and actively exploring the construction of a literary discourse and narrative system with Lingnan characteristics in the new era.
"Struggle and Glory - Guangdong Well-off Narrative" is a heavy work of Guangdong literary circles praising the comprehensive construction of a well-off society, and is one of the important achievements of Guangdong literature in the new era, guangdong outstanding writers have practiced the glory and dream of writers with hard work and excellent artistic exploration, and provided useful enlightenment for Guangdong literary creation.
Make new contributions to the construction of Chinese literary discourse and narrative system in the new era
Zhang Peizhong pointed out that "Struggle and Glory - Narrative of Guangdong Well-off" highlights the consistent vision, pattern and boldness of Guangdong's reportage creation, and establishes the heart for the country and casts the soul for the nation.
"Marked by the advent of this work, Guangdong's major themes and key creations in the new era will surely usher in a harvest period." Zhang Peizhong said that the next step is to exert efforts from the following aspects:
First, we must grasp the advantages and tell the story of Guangdong well. We must be good at insight into opportunities, bravely shoulder heavy burdens, and display the style of Lingnan culture with more famous articles and famous works.
Second, we must seize the opportunity to enhance the literature of the Bay Area. Good at discovering the theme of creation from the great creation, capturing the inspiration of innovation, using deep feelings and full of passion to promote more "masterpieces" and "heirloom works", forging a new growth point for literature in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Third, we must strengthen self-confidence and create a Chinese literary discourse and narrative system in the new era. Literary creation in the new era should pay more attention to the content of information, the capacity of thought, and the power of emotion, innovate and make breakthroughs in the integration of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries, and inclusiveness, and make new contributions to the construction of Chinese literary discourse and narrative system in the new era.
At the meeting, Zhang Peizhong and Tan Juntie respectively reported on the creation and publication.
In addition, Zhang Huaihai, second-level inspector of the Publishing Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, He Xiangyang, director of the Innovation and Research Department of the China Writers Association, Peng Xueming, director of the China Writers Association Creation And Research Department, and Li Chaoquan, deputy director of the Innovation and Research Department of the China Writers Association and vice president of the China Reportage Literature Society, attended the meeting by video in Beijing.
Chen Kun and Su Yi, members of the party leading group and full-time vice chairmen of the Guangdong Writers Association, Liu Chun, member of the party group and secretary general, Xiao Yanbing, editor-in-chief of Southern Publishing and Media, and Zhang Yi, president of Huacheng Publishing House, attended the meeting at the main venue.
Some of the experts attending the meeting had the following views:
Famous critic Li Jingze:
I think "Struggle and Glory - Guangdong Well-off Narrative" is a masterpiece of epic composition, what is history, history is about a process of time, is to see the development of things in time. In this book, we have indeed seen both history and history; we have seen both time and space; we have seen both the development of the times and the trend of the times, and we have also seen the very specific progress of the people's struggle, the people's choices, and the people's march toward a grand historical goal in every place and every space on the land of our motherland. So in this sense, I think "Struggle and Glory - Guangdong Xiaokang Narrative" can really be said to be a Well-off Zhi of Guangdong or the history of Guangdong Xiaokang.
He Xiangyang, director of the Innovation and Research Department of the China Writers Association
Congratulations on the publication of the four volumes of "Struggle and Glory - The Narrative of Guangdong Xiaokang", the publication of this book is a major event in the publishing industry, a new harvest in the literary world, especially documentary literature, and a great harvest in Guangdong's cultural history.
For the future, it has very important historical value. The first manifestation is that the standing position is high. In terms of time span, more than forty years of history have been written; second, the concept is new. It can be said that the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way has been placed in a broad historical vision, and the millennial dream of Chinese has been written until the change of modern times; third, the details are realistic. In terms of the richness of the details, this work has a lot of rich and solid details to support, making this work more heavy in conception, and also tells a thousand characters and six hundred stories, and the author has worked hard.
Famous literary critic Zhang Li:
First of all, I would like to congratulate the Guangdong Writers Association and Huacheng Publishing House for their particularly weighty, weighty, and socially significant works.
I think the work is a panoramic picture. Through ordinary daily stories to refract the changes of an era, so it is very literary, from a small incision to reflect the big history, the big theme, that is, it is actually in the form of reportage, with the changes in the lives of the people and personal destiny to refract the changes of an era, because it is reportage, non-fiction, so it is real, especially convincing.
Overall, I think this is a very literary and very thematic and realistic work, with stories, details, temperature, emotions, the times, and especially importantly, readability, turning a lot of slogan-style things into living details of life.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter: Wu Bo
Video/Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Reporter: Wu Bo
Correspondent: He Xiaoliu
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Xie Yufen