Remember the hit drama "The Years of Burning Passion" of that year?
Recently, the People's Literature Publishing House launched the playwright, famous writer and screenwriter Shi Zhongshan's novel "Asking the Vast Land".
The launch ceremony of the new book was held in the form of an online live broadcast. Sarina, a famous actress who recently played the mother of the Zhou family in "The World of Man" and whose acting skills were praised, also came to the scene as a good friend of Shi Zhongshan for many years and "shouted" for the new book.
Since Shi Zhongshan published his debut novel in the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art at the age of twenty, he has published more than 100 novels and novel collections, and is a contemporary writer loved by readers.
His novel "Father Goes to Town" was adapted into the TV series "The Years of Burning Passion" to cause a sensation, and since then a large number of novels have been adapted into film and television works, and he has also begun to cross-border film and television, serving as a screenwriter and producer.
His representative works such as "The Years of Burning Passion", "Shi Guangrong and His Children", "Happiness Is Like a Flower", "Brothers under heaven", "Military Song Loud", "Mainland Island", etc., have won various awards such as the "Five One Project" Award, the Feitian Award, the Golden Eagle Award, and the Beijing Municipal Government Literature and Art Award of the Central Propaganda Department.
On the eve of the liberation of northeast China, Bi Jian, chief of the intelligence section of the Social Department of the Northeast Bureau, and the Kuomintang agent code-named "Old Master" began to exhaust the "cat and mouse game" of his life, and the one who was ordered to pretend to be the wife of "Old Master" was actually the sister of Bi Jian's lover who had been lost for many years, and the fates of several characters were entangled with each other, stirring up a string of waves in the tide of the times.
Shi Zhongshan himself called "Asking the Vast Land" an "atypical" spy war novel, because this work does not focus on the ups and downs of the plot and the intricate character relationship like a typical spy war drama, but focuses on the contest between people and the fate of the characters in the context of the big era. He believes that the fate of each character in this work is inseparable from the times.
The famous critic Meng Fanhua believes that Shi Zhongshan's previous military-themed novels have contributed to shaping a new military image, such as "Shi Guangrong" in "The Years of Burning Passion", which is different from the past character image of strict and unblemished characters; at the same time, the film and television drama adapted from Shi Zhongshan's novel has made such theme works more lifelike, thus winning the love of the majority of audiences.
Talking about Shi Zhongshan's new work "Asking the Vast Land", Meng Fanhua said that he would prefer to see it as an "anti-special novel". Because of the success of a series of works from "Latent" to "Cliff", spy dramas have become a trend, such works are written by our personnel to break into the enemy's interior, and Shi Zhongshan's new work continues the tradition of "anti-special themes" in classic works such as "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel" and "Secret Drawings", which is also a type that readers and audiences like to hear.
Zang Yongqing, president of the People's Literature Publishing House, said that from the eve of the liberation of Northeast China to the reform and opening up, such a long span of time has brought a heavy sense of history.
He hopes that "Ask the Vast Land" will be as popular as Shi Zhongshan's past popular masterpieces, which will be loved by the majority of readers, and there will be the next step of film and television adaptation.
Recently, sarina, acclaimed veteran drama bone Sarina, who played the mother of the Zhou family in the popular TV series "The World of Man", came to the scene of the new book launch as a friend of Shi Zhongshan.
In the dialogue, she revealed that she had admired writers since she was a child, and when she graduated from college, she had secretly attended classes in the military writers class where Shi Zhongshan was studying.
After watching the TV series "The Years of Burning Passion" and "Happiness Like a Flower" adapted from Shi Zhongshan's works that year, she went to read the original work again.
She found that "the power of words is greater, which is incomparable to other things, something that nourishes the heart." Therefore, I am a fan of Teacher Shi, a staunch fan! ”
She shared her feelings about reading "Ask the Vast Land" recently, and believes that the narrative of this novel is eloquent, and the consistent style and strength of the author Shi Zhongshan are hidden between the lines and are worth slowly savoring.