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Author: Tie Ning
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Ten years ago, I once made a of my works and had five volumes of 《Tie Ning Collection》 published as a summary. Today, ten years later, as I am making another of my works, it coincides with the People's Literature Publishing House planning to edit and publish the "Series of Contemporary Chinese Writers." Thus, this series of nine books of my works came into being. Among them, there are three volumes of novels: 《Rose Gate》, 《City Without Rain》, and 《The Big Bathing Girl》； two volumes of middle-length stories, titled 《How Far Is Eternity》 and 《Cliff Over the Afternoon》； two volumes of short stories, titled 《Guests Are Coming》 and 《Chocolate Fingerprints》； and two volumes of essays, titled 《Walking Dreams》 and 《Beautiful and Clear as Paper-Cuttings》。 Readers familiar with my works might notice that the novel 《City Without Rain》 was published in 1994, but when I edited the collection in 1996, I excluded it from the collection. The reason was probably that I felt it was not substantial enough at the time! Even because it was too popular, it made me uneasy and made me doubt the artistic quality of this work. Ten years later, I included it in this series of works because I clearly realized that the writing of 《City Without Rain》 helped me develop my ability to structure a novel, and later works like 《The Big Bathing Girl》 and 《Bun Hua》 benefited from this training to some extent. When a writer makes a of their works, they should not overlook the writing that has a sense of connection and preparation.