Family Letters (4 Volumes)
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Summary
*Family Letters* is not a conventional compilation of family correspondence but a themed book about hometown, family, and kin. It contains fragmentary memories of parents, teachers, and friends through the passage of years; records of the marks home left on childhood and youth; and recollections of home in the course of personal growth. The writing is quiet and moving. Everyone has family letters, every family has stories; in this series the authors examine themselves with the utmost sincerity and feeling, recording the starting point and driving force of a group of people—even a generation—as they move forward. Whatever their status, however far the road they have traveled since growing up, home remains an eternal umbilical cord sustaining them.
This is a series that reflects the spirit of the times through personal family histories. It carries a warm, plain positive energy, accords with traditional Chinese family values, can activate readers' beautiful and positive feelings about "home," and helps draw people together. It has considerable social and literary value.
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy essays and quiet narrative
- Readers interested in the formative experiences of figures in literature and the arts
- Readers who want to read with family and spark intergenerational conversation
- Readers drawn to themes of family, hometown, and changing times
Not a good fit for
- Novel readers expecting coherent plots and strong storytelling
- Readers hoping for systematic family-letter documents or historical source compilations
- Readers who prefer fast pacing and strong argumentation
Reading tips
- No need to read in volume order; choose by author or theme, one or two pieces at a time.
- Keep a pen handy and make brief notes where a family memory moves you.
- After reading, share one piece with family and talk about your own memories of home.
About the publisher
Founded in August 1958 and restructured into Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. in 2009, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House is known for publishing essays and fiction, and it hosts the journals Fiction Monthly and Essays. Its 757 titles in the library span classic works, culture, folk literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, foreign literature, and general biography. They include Lao She's Camel Xiangzi, Zhu Ziqing's selected essays and Classic Essays, Fu Lei's Twenty Lectures on Masterpieces of World Art, and a Chinese translation of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Rashōmon, as well as cultural and performing-arts titles such as the illustrated Biography of Liang Qichao and A Dictionary of Crosstalk. Its authors include Lao She, Zhu Ziqing, Wu Qichang, Fu Lei, Xue Baokun, Gao Yucong, Wei Zhiqiang, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 家书 卷一
- 邵绡红 若无盛佩玉，何以成就邵洵美
- 肖复兴 北大荒
- 夏中义 我的“阿娘”
- 金宇澄 一切已归平静
- 林少华 书箱和牵牛花
- 袁瑶瑶 父亲、母亲与爸爸
- 翟永明 十八岁之歌
- 李亚伟 家事散记
- 赵野 八十年代那些云烟
- 鲁敏 以父之名
- 李修文 致母亲
- 阿乙 纽约
- 家书 卷二
- 丁雄泉 一九七〇年代家信
- 厐均 天不老，情难绝
- 费明杰 老照片上的那些往昔
- 刘丽明 关于刘丹画册序的信
- 施慧 往事如烟
- 徐冰 琐忆
- 张晓刚 家中日记
- 叶永青 与妻书
- 陈侗 纪事
- 刘建华 庐陵巷13号
- 张恩利 画中人——母亲
- 孙初 若有信
- 向京 一个关于八十年代的版本
- 家书 卷三
- 庄灵 母亲的一生
- 汪芜生 寄往彼岸
- 阮义忠 回家的方向
- 任曙林 我和父亲
- 张海儿 来，笑一笑
- 肖全 那些为我布施的人
- 冯君蓝 我阿爸，一个在实存中挣扎的基督徒
- 朱德华 我的成长与父亲
- 韩磊 奇妙的三年
- 颜长江 故园三章
- 付羽 看图说话
- 木格 一个人一生只有一个故乡
- 欧家成 告白
- 家书 卷四
- 施养德 故里杏花店
- 林怀民 母亲的花圃
- 吕敬人 百岁老父
- 孙冕 慈母三唱
- 李保峰 童年杂议
- 吕澎 昏暗的时间
- 李宗盛 我的三个家
- 口述：王澍 整理：夏楠 素朴为家
- 黄源顺 舒适区
- 叶锦添 献给我母亲
- 童明 认知祖父与父亲
- 欧宁 致母亲书
- 口述：郭锡恩、胡如珊 整理：黄玉琼 一场寻找家的对话
- 杨树鹏 破碎的阳光
- 撰文：朱赢椿 整理：曾丽娴 在房前屋后吃草
- 郑宗龙 十年
- 后记
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About the author
Jin Yucheng is a Chinese novelist and essayist. Public information about him is limited, and this database does not systematically record details of his life, education, or professional positions. It currently holds four of his works: the novel Blossoms, the nonfiction work Looking Back, the four-volume collection Family Letters, and the essay collection The Shuffling Era. Blossoms is his representative work, known for its Shanghai-inflected voice and street-level storytelling, and was adapted into a同名 television series starring Hu Ge, Ma Yili, and Tang Yan. The Shuffling Era is regarded as a sourcebook for Blossoms, reflecting his long-standing attention to Shanghai's urban memory and everyday life. Looking Back leans toward documentary and biographical writing, while Family Letters presents personal and family records in epistolary form. Overall, Jin Yucheng's writing is often categorized as social fiction, documentary literature, and classic works, with a nuanced, restrained style and a strong sense of place and period.
Xia Nan is an author about whom limited public information is available; her work spans the fields of biography and management. Judging from the three titles held in the collection, her writing covers strikingly different ground. On one hand, she edited Letters from Home (4 volumes), which uses the intimate and authentic form of correspondence to present family feeling and personal memory, partaking of the nature of biography and historical compilation. On the other hand, she wrote Classic Management Cases of HR and Corporate Culture and Classic Practical Cases of HR and Corporate Culture, which focus on human resources and the building of corporate culture, examining concrete problems in management practice through case studies. The two kinds of subject matter, one gentle and one rigorous, show her adaptability across different genres: the former emphasizes the record of feeling, the latter practical analysis. Information about her background and professional experience remains unclear and awaits further material, but based on the works available, her writing combines readability with practicality, addressing general readers and business management practitioners respectively.
