Cover of Contemporary, Issue 2, 2022
Novel
Mirror
Ai Wei
An ethical tragedy that leads to a long and arduous journey of redemption for several people. In addition to the long road that spans the world and echoes from afar, what Ai Wei wants to explore is also the possibility of placing the human mind at the metaphysical level.
Ai Wei is the author of the long stories "Wind and Sun Beauty", "Lover Comrade", "Lover Guilty", "Cross Country Race", "Midsummer", "South", novel collection "Country Movie", "A Brief History of Women", "The Whole Universe Is Talking to Me", "Past", etc., and "Ai Wei's Works Collection" in five volumes. Many works have been translated into English, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian and other languages. He is currently the chairman of Zhejiang Writers Association.
Short and medium stories
Tallest building
Liu Qingbang
He was bent on building the tallest building in the village, because his surname was Gao, and the village was also surnamed Gao. Villages and houses, families and individuals, fate seems to be secretly involved by a rope.
Liu Qingbang was born in 1951 in rural Shenqiu, Henan. The short story "Shoes" won the second Lu Xun Literature Award, and the novellas "Shenmu" and "Squib" won the second and fourth Lao She Literature Awards. The film Blind Well, based on his novel Shenmu, won the Silver Bear Award at the 53rd Berlin Film Festival. He is currently the chairman of the China Coal Mine Writers Association and the vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association.
Red Door
Bluestone
It seems to be a business experience, but it is also a history of the jianghu. Before the world was young and the dust had not yet settled, people's desires, confusion, and friendship were always muddy and simple, and now they have become legends.
Blue Stone, now living in Beijing, professional writing. He has published works in people's literature, October and other journals.
Good night
Zhong Ermao
"I'm not there, I'm not sleeping forever", a swan song that drifts at the end of the night, and seven stories of life and death told before the end of the journey. This goodnight can be so light; this goodnight can be so heavy.
Zhong Ermao, a native of Hunan, is a Yao, novelist, film director, former policeman, journalist, and member of the Chinese Writers Association. He has published novels such as "Small Middle Class", "Little Floating World", "Perfect Planning", "Our Fear and Love", and the short story collection "Old Paradise". He has won the 2nd China Ethnic Minority Literature Star and Hundred Flowers Literature Award, the Annual Award of Ethnic Literature, the Guangdong Provincial Novel Award, the Shenzhen Youth Literature Award and other awards. His screenwriting and directing films include "The Smile of a Dead Ghost", which won the "Small Cost Film Award" at the Rochester International Film Festival in the United States, and was shortlisted for the Arizona International Film Festival in the United States and the "Best Short Film in the World" unit of the Edmonton International Film Festival in Canada.
meanwhile
Seven years
Beijing, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, Sakhalin Island, is the journey "homesickness for a place never set foot", or is it a disgust for modern life and trivial everyday life, or is it just a senseless escape?
Seven years, female, born in 1986. He has published 11 works such as "Lamp of the Earth", "Happy Life", "The Land of No Dreams", etc., and short stories have also appeared in "Contemporary", "Harvest", "People's Literature" and other journals. He has won the Most Promising Newcomer Award of the Chinese Literature and Media Award, the "Zijin People's Literature Star" Novel Award, etc.
Someone danced
Liaojing
The red and noisy soundtrack of the square dance and the beating notes on the piano keyboard are clearly the two forms of music, but they can also stimulate resonance, allowing him to lift his head from the faint memories and go beyond the lonely nest to find a warm embrace.
Liaojing, novel author, published the novel collection "Wedding Night" and the novel "Late Marriage".
Sister
Guo Hua
"Three and a half people", more than fifty years, and the sister will always be our main heart, our protector.
Guo Hua began publishing literary works in 1972. He has published many novels and essays in newspapers and periodicals such as People's Daily, People's Liberation Army Daily, Beijing Literature, Works, and Works and Controversies. He has won the "Excellent Work Award of Chinese Newspaper Supplement" and the "Excellent Work Award" of Hebei Writers Association.
Talk
Jinser Gorgeous (continued)
—— Li Shangyin twenty-three questions
ZHANG Wei
Li Shangyin and his poems have left many puzzles, and how many misreadings have there been throughout the ages? The famous writer Zhang Wei broke through the fog and provided a new interpretation. This issue continues to publish the following ten questions of Zhang Wei's "Jinse Gorgeous" article.
Zhang Wei, a native of Qixia, Shandong, is the vice chairman of the China Writers Association. He is the author of the novels "Ancient Ship", "September Fable", "Hedgehog Song", "You are in the Plateau", "Du Pharmacist", "The Secret History of Aiyobao", etc., and the poetic monographs "Also Say Li Bai and Du Fu", "Tao Yuanming's Legacy", "Chu Ci Notes", "Reading the Book of Poetry" and many other works. "You are in the plateau" won the 8th Mao Dun Literature Award.
chronicle
Chen Zhongzhong in the eighties
Ruan Jie, Xing Xiaoli
How did Chen Zhongzhong become Chen Zhongzhong? Based on a large number of first-hand materials, this article leads readers back to the 1980s, interpreting "Chen Zhongzhong before "White Deer Plain", how to awaken, peel off, and find their own art world.
Jie Ruan, Master of Arts in Philosophy, School of Humanities, Xi'an Conservatory of Music. Xing Xiaoli was the deputy editor-in-chief of the Magazine "Novel Review" of the Shaanxi Writers Association and the director of the Literary Creation Research Office. He is currently the executive vice president of Shaanxi Bailu Academy, the vice president of the Chinese Academy Society, the president of the Shaanxi Liuqing Literature Research Association, and the vice president of the Shaanxi Provincial Prose Literature Association. He is the author of the literary and art criticism collection "Chang'an Night Rain", "On the Edge of Literature and Literature", "Shaanxi Writers and Shaanxi Literature", the essay collection "How Far Is the Way Home", "Planting Beans Nanshan", "No More Humiliation", "Long Road Wind Language", "One Direction Strange", the novel "Afternoon", as well as "Chen Zhongzhong Biography", "Chen Zhongzhong's Annual Genealogy", "Chen Zhongzhong's Painting Biography", "Chen Zhongzhong's Research", "Liu Youth's Spectrum", "Shaanxi Literary Memorabilia 1936-2016", etc.
Contemporary, No. 2, 2022
WeChat Editor of this issue: Meng Xiaoshu
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