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Author: Xiao Qian / Fu Guangming (editors)
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Publish Date: July 1, 2005
Features: Classics are the treasures left behind by time, portraits and annotations of human nature. The significance of classics lies in their freshness with every reading, remaining an unchanging landscape on the bookshelves of readers through the ages. In the ever-changing flow of time and life, where nothing can be repeated, classics are the words, sounds, and expressions that have conquered time. Those sincere statements, those fearless cries, those reflections on the human spirit awaken our past hopes, inspire our present courage, and free us from vanity, emptiness, and doubt about the future. The figures of these sages and their timeless words purify our hearts, shake our souls, and teach us what can be missed but never forgotten, and what is fleeting yet invaluable.
The authors included in "Insights into Masterpieces of Classic Fiction" are all scavengers and pioneers of modern Chinese literature, as well as experimenters and pioneers of various new artistic forms. No wonder Shi Zhecun, with a certain pride, once told me that he was unimpressed by the various so-called artistic explorations of his younger contemporaries in the 1980s, especially their attempts at many "avant-garde" modernist techniques like symbolism, impressionism, and stream of consciousness. "All of this," he said, "we did in the 1930s, and even better than they did. It’s nothing new."
Indeed, every era has its own literature. But classic literature belongs not only to its own time but also to later generations of readers who can appreciate and share an artistic connection with it. In the ever-changing flow of time and life, where nothing can be repeated, classics are the words, sounds, and expressions that have conquered time. Those sincere statements, those fearless cries, those reflections on the human spirit awaken our past hopes, inspire our present courage, and free us from vanity, emptiness, and doubt about the future.
"Conversion" is one of Xiao Qian’s short stories with the most anti-religious undertones. It depicts the Salvation Army’s efforts to buy souls in the slums of old Beijing and the story of an awakened nationalist’s resistance. "Conversion" was written based on Xiao Qian’s early experiences—he was challenging the world through his personal encounters. But he merely plucked a single hair from Christianity: As a child, he lived on a street inhabited by the poor. Every day, the Salvation Army, beating drums, would march past his door. Behind them, girls with bells on their drums would sing "Come quickly to the Lord" in shrill voices. At the rear of the procession was a blond, blue-eyed foreigner, smiling proudly. Xiao Qian remembered being picked up by a foreign woman wearing a badge around her neck, which scared him into crying. She patted him and handed him a copy of "The Gospel of Matthew."