Wives and concubines in a crowd

Author: Su Tong
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: Editing this book together with friends from the editorial department of "Harvest," my heart was exceptionally happy. With this book, I also reflected on my twenty years of writing career, on the bond and friendship I have shared with "Harvest" over the past eighteen years. Suddenly, I realized that over the years, I have not been writing alone under a lone lamp. Many people stood behind me, including my family, my friends, and the friends of "Harvest" living in another city. We have always been together. In a certain sense, writing is a process of breaking and building anew. The path of writing is a dark and labyrinthine one, but when a writer suddenly looks back, what they hope for 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?