Selected Works of Bing Xin

Author: Bing Xin
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: We love Bing Xin, following her love for stars and the sea. This lonely child found warmth and lost maternal love in her works. I still remember the summer before leaving home, surrounded by the chirping of cicadas, my cousin and I reading Starry Sky together and learning to write short poems. These poems remain vividly in my heart, though I only wrote a dozen or so. I am not a poet, yet I often feel as if someone is reciting poetry before me, and I unconsciously recite poetry and slowly approach them.
Ba Jin, Preface to Bing Xin's Biography
The elegance of Bing Xin's prose, the refinement of her language, and the purity of her thoughts are truly unique among Chinese writers. I remember in Shelley's poem To a Skylark, it seems to have said that the skylark is the embodiment of newborn joy, a star in the daylight, a messenger that brings moonlight-like songs to the universe, and a rain master whose wonderful music makes the colorful drops of the rainbow feel inferior. Using the poet's exquisite and elegant lines to praise the skylark, word for word, to critique Bing Xin's prose, I think is most appropriate.
Yu Dafu, Introduction to the New Literature of China: Prose Collection II
Bing Xin's works appear in a miraculous manner, with wings, flying to the hearts of young men and women, becoming countless gifts of joy. Her name has also become one that everyone knows.
Shen Congwen, On Bing Xin's Creation
Bing Xin's writing is so fresh and elegant, her style so light and agile, imbued with artistic and poetic charm, like a string of sparkling star pearls embedded in the night sky. Like a pool of spring water, after the wind passes, it ripples like brocade.
Li Subo, On Bing Xin
This book collects the representative works of the modern famous female writer and translator Bing Xin, including 75 prose pieces, 20 novels, and 22 poems. Bing Xin's prose is delicate and pure in emotion, with a light and lively tone, combining the fluency and clarity of vernacular Chinese with the conciseness and elegance of classical Chinese. Her short poems are graceful and classical, short and concise, full of wisdom, and once unparalleled, hailed as the "Bing Xin Style." Her novels focus on life issues, are concise and elegant, with light and beautiful prose. Works such as the novel Loneliness, the short story Little Orange Lantern, and the prose Three Letters to Young Readers have been frequently included in China's primary and secondary school Chinese textbooks.