One Window, Four Seasons

Author: Shao Yanxiang
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: People say that character is destiny. I say, any authentic prose should be a record and display of character and destiny, including the weaknesses of character and the paradoxes of fate. These writings left over the years are tentatively titled A Window of Four Seasons. It is certainly true that one can "turn a deaf ear to the affairs outside and focus solely on reading the classics," but to "shut oneself in a small tower, indifferent to winter and summer," is by no means easy. This book mainly includes Preface, Old City Sketches, Dongdan Square, Vocabulary, Grammar and Rhetorical Forms, "I Am Responsible" - Empty Talk, Footprints on Huangshan Mountain, Orchids, Pea Sprouts and Others, Loving the People, Eliminating the Residual Influence of Feudalism, Wishing Movies Could All Be "Real," Amateur Notes, Broadening the Path for Free Speech, Q&A with a Journalist After the Fourth Writers' Congress, Can Epic Works Reflecting the Cultural Revolution Emerge?, Pen Names, Early Morning Market on Sundays, Good Satire, Inspired by the Reversal of the Hu Feng Case, On Corruption and Anti-Corruption, About Prose, The Mirror of History, Starting from the Evaluation of 1976, An Important Publicity Precaution, An Example of Ideological and Political Education, Resilience, Beyond Discussion, Capturing Butterflies, Being Rigorous, Politics and Integrity, What Drives Us, etc.