Qin Wenjun's Collection of Fragrant Flowers: Gardenia Volume

Author: Qin Wenjun
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This collection is divided into ten volumes, each named after a flower, including "Gardenia Volume," "Cosmos Volume," "Lily Volume," "Wintersweet Volume," "Dragonwort Volume," "Lavender Volume," "Rose Volume," "Dianthus Volume," "Narcissus Volume," and "Gladiolus Volume." The selected works encompass various literary forms, such as novels, essays, short stories, and. These ten volumes compile Qin Wenjun's classic works from recent years. Her renowned novels, such as The Boy Jiali, The Girl Jimei, The Heart History of a Girl, No. 3 Tian Tang Street, and The Autobiography of Liu Gezhi, are all included. This collection is rich in content and has a unique style, featuring flower-themed covers, floral headbands, floral letterheads, and personal letters written by the author for young boys and girls in each volume. It also includes prefaces filled with the fragrance of flowers, written by ten prominent Chinese children's literature writers and critics. This collection, much like the characters in Qin Wenjun's works, exudes a youthful energy like a blooming flower. The series has an elegant tone, with grand and exquisite cover designs, combining both weight and modernity, making it highly collectible.
Qin Wenjun is one of the most important, representative, and transitional figures in modern Chinese children's literature since the New Period. Her artistic explorations have opened up new artistic spaces for contemporary Chinese children's literature and brought readers, especially young people, a fresh aesthetic experience. Her novels feature unique artistic structures, rich details, and a light, humorous tone. They are close to the times, readers, and the realities of life and psychology of young people. She portrays the hearts of young boys and girls filled with sunshine and floral fragrances, while also capturing the awkwardness, complexity, joys, and pains of their growth and transformation. Qin Wenjun has successfully created iconic characters like "The Boy Jiali" and "The Girl Jimei," who will shine forever in the hall of fame of children's literature.
This collection is rich in content and has a unique style, featuring flower-themed covers, floral headbands, floral letterheads, and personal letters written by the author for young boys and girls in each volume. It also includes prefaces filled with the fragrance of flowers, written by ten prominent Chinese children's literature writers and critics. This collection, much like the characters in Qin Wenjun's works, exudes a youthful energy like a blooming flower, making it highly collectible.
This volume includes two novels: The Black-Haired Sister and Summer at the Age of Fifteen. The Black-Haired Sister depicts the troubles and anxieties of a girl as she grows up, bids farewell to innocence, and transitions into adulthood. Summer at the Age of Fifteen tells the extraordinary emotional experiences of a group of literature-loving young boys and girls during a summer camp. The works are like gardenias blooming after enduring storms, radiating a sweet fragrance.