Ten Records of a Floating Life

Author: Su Xuelin
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Su Xuelin is known as an "outsider" in the history of modern Chinese literature. For fifty years, readers have been carrying her legacy. The editor has divided her works into ten collections such as "Green Sky and Stream," "Whispers of Autumn," and "Candlelight by the Western Window," encompassing the essence of Su Xuelin's century-old life essays. Among modern writers, Su Xuelin is a unique phenomenon. In the 1930s, she gained fame with her essay collection "Green Sky" and her autobiographical novel "Thorns and Hearts," being hailed by Ai Ying as the "most outstanding female essayist." She was ranked among the "Five Great Female Writers of the 1930s" alongside Bing Xin, Ling Shuhua, Feng Yuanyun, and Ding Ling. She devoted eighty years to writing and lived to the age of 103, leaving behind over 20 million words of literary works. Yet, despite being a celebrated literary talent, her works were largely ignored by the mainland publishing industry for a long time due to her past conflicts with Lu Xun and her later departure from the mainland. As a result, half a century later, many were unfamiliar with Su Xuelin, truly a lonely figure in the literary world.