Wives and concubines in abundance

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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: Collaborating with friends from the editorial office of "Harvest" to compile this book brought me an extraordinary sense of joy. Through this book, I also reflected on my twenty years of writing career and the friendship I have built with "Harvest" over the past eighteen years. Suddenly, I realized that over the years, I haven't been writing alone under a lone lamp. Many people stood behind me, including my family, my friends, and the friends at "Harvest" living in another city—we have always been together. Writing, in a sense, is a process of breaking and building anew. The path of writing is a dark and bewildering one, but when a writer suddenly looks back, what they hope to see is not the torch lighting the way but the familiar figures of their friends. What they care about is something unrelated to writing—friends, are they still there?