This collection of miniature stories covers a wide array of subjects while deploying a multiplicity of writing skills.These eighty-eight distincive yet seamless vignettes act as a condensed archive of recent great social reforms in China,through their small yet vivid sketches,portrayals and reproductions of Chinaese people's lives and feelings.The many authors,with profound,incisive thinking and vision,have been witness to and experienced near everything in Chinese society,so they have every reason and every capacity to superbly and deftly accomplish this challenging literary mission.

WanS MenS

 21st Century Chinese Literature m Points of Departure

BinS FenS

 Miniature Literary Sketches of Chinese People

LianS XiaosbenS

 The Recruit

Ab Cbeng

 My Classmate Zhou

Bi Sbumin

 Purple Human Outline

Cben Jiangong

 Meddlesome Man at His Sister's Funeral

Liu Xinwu

 Please Stay

Wang Meng

 Mailbox

Jiang Zilong

 Caregivers

Teng Gang

 How Butterflies Are Drawn to Flowers

Bei Bei

 Love in 1999

Qin Yong

 The Example

An Yong

 The Door Bell

Hang Ying

 The Carpet

Cben Yu

 Time

Ye Yanbin

 Sworn Buddies

Ai Xin

 Can't See Mama's Shoes

Guan Hong

 A Hairclip under the Pillow

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