Dancer on the Arc Liang Xiaozhong Short Story Collection. Huo Juan: Huo Juan

Author: Liang Xiaosheng
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: How Liang Xiaosheng is as a writer has long been recognized in various common ways. This Is a Magical Land, Tonight There Is a Snowstorm, Snow City, and Tree Rings made him the founder of "sent-down youth literature"; Father, Mother, Younger Brother, Mid-Autumn Again, Black Button, and White Hair Pin established him as a representative writer of "family-themed fiction"; while works like Elected, Right to Silence, Archives, Speaking, and Death of a Scholar are his powerful middle-length pieces that confront reality with profound depth, proving his unwavering commitment to the literary belief of focusing on reality.
In 1984, it was called the "Year of Liang Xiaosheng," and a newspaper publicly ranked him among the "Ten Writers Who Touch China," calling him a "commoner writer" and praising him as "China's Balzac." In terms of quantity, he is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Chinese middle-length fiction. And in terms of the breadth of themes and diversity of styles, he is truly remarkable. In his middle-length fiction, from intellectuals to college students, workers, peasants, armed police, and criminals, to various female figures of different eras—countless characters form a literary "River Scene at Qingming" of Chinese society as depicted by Liang Xiaosheng.
In one of his creative talks, he described himself as a "writer standing on an arc," using the "arc" to metaphorically represent the humanistic quality and stance of literature. This book takes the literary works he has written as the title of his collection of middle-length fiction—Dancers on the Arc.