Selected Works of Cao Wenxuan

Author: Cao Wenxuan
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This collection is a selected works of renowned writer Cao Wenxuan, following his long novels The Starry Sky and Bronze and Flower. It is a curated selection of his best writings, featuring the essence of his novels and essays, including famous works such as The White Fence, Melancholy Pastoral, Blue Flower, Loach, Moonlight and Clear Wind, A Chu, and Spring Flowers, Autumn Moon, Azaleas in Summer. Cao Wenxuan is a representative figure of "Neo-Classicism" in contemporary Chinese literature, inheriting the style of novelists such as Fei Ming, Shen Congwen, and Wang Zengqi. His works are renowned for their beauty and emotional depth, whether depicting the world's scenery or portraying the human soul. They move readers with their delicate and fresh details. Renowned literary critic Ji Hongzhen once remarked, "Cao Wenxuan's novels, in a very noisy era, provide us with something very warm, beautiful, lyrical—a pastoral and spiritual essence, a style, or perhaps a mood." Another famous literary critic and deputy editor of People's Literature, Li Jingze, believes that Cao Wenxuan's works offer an important reference for how we should navigate this era. His long novel masterpiece The Grass House won the National Book Award and has sold over 400,000 copies in various editions since its publication in 1997. All of his works, including the long novel Red Tiles and the academic monograph The Gate of Fiction, have been reprinted multiple times since their release. In 2003, the Writers' Publishing House released The Collected Works of Cao Wenxuan (9 volumes), which also received widespread acclaim. In 2005, Yangtze River Literature and Art Press published his new long novel The Starry Sky, with an initial print run of 100,000 copies, sparking much discussion in the literary community. Cao Wenxuan's works have also been selected multiple times for inclusion in domestic and international Chinese language textbooks.