People's Guards-(Latest Revised Version)

Author: Fang Nanjiang
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: When an editor has written content summaries for many years, looking back today, it seems quite foolish, truly wrote oneself silly. Entering an era of lies, empty talk, and clichés, the more truthful the words, the more they resemble lies. Moreover, with the literary market growing increasingly thin, editors are sometimes unavoidable in a bit of showy pretense. The content of this book is all on the cover—neither too much nor too little. If readers believe it, just relax and read the entire book. As for the author, I’d like to say a few words. Fang Nanjiang is a professional military officer. His father was too. Later, he was promoted to general. But the literary world was unaware that the People’s Armed Police Corps had a novel-writing general. In fact, in the 1980s, Fang Nanjiang won the National Short Story Award in 1980, and at that time, the literary prize had real prestige. After that, Fang Nanjiang wrote some short and medium-length stories, which received good responses, and then he mysteriously disappeared. When Fang Nanjiang reappeared, it was in the spring of 2004, at the beginning of the new century, as a clean and seemingly very young man, quietly sitting in the back row of the Lu Xun Writers’ Class. Fang Nanjiang attended as a, listening to every teacher’s lectures. He not only memorized every teacher’s words but also remembered every fellow writer-student, just wondering if the students still remembered him. A few months later, The Chinese Guards was published. This was Fang Nanjiang’s, but definitely not his last. Because, The Chinese Guards received heartfelt praise and encouragement from literary colleagues both inside and outside the military. Four magazines—The Selection of Long Fiction (inaugural issue), PLA Literature, China Writer, and Olive Green—almost simultaneously reprinted and selected excerpts, a rare occurrence in contemporary literary circles. This is both an honor for Fang Nanjiang and an honor for quality literature.