There Is Light
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy delicate lyrical essays and hope to find spiritual comfort in reading
- Busy readers who want to relax with short essays during fragmented time
- Readers who appreciate nature, plants, and everyday details and prefer warm, gentle prose
- Those interested in literary reading and writing who seek resonance
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer strong plot and fast-paced narrative
- Readers expecting systematic theory or practical how-to content
- Readers who dislike lyrical tone and personal essay style
Reading tips
- Read in the order of the three sections—"Having Something to Love," "Having Something to Think About," and "Having Something to Believe In"—to experience the thematic progression
- Read one or two pieces at a time, leaving space for afterthought and association
- Mark passages that resonate and, after finishing, revisit them and write a few notes
- Read during quiet moments before sleep or in the early morning to match a calm mood
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
- 我们需要什么样的身体——序“生活志”文丛
- 辑一 有所爱
- 人类挚友在自然中
- 春夏书
- 秋冬帖
- 花不虚度帖
- 不过是挚爱
- 谁遣花枝照古人
- 起舞
- 辑二 有所思
- 阅读令生命有光
- 生命的孤独虚无
- 语言，作为文学唯一的母题
- 文章怎么写
- 癸卯廿章
- 江州寻陶潜
- 山海五章
- 辑三 有所信
- 人间书
- 雨让一切慢下来
- 故乡时令
- 不同物种的爱
- 雪拥蓝关马不前
- 以诗起飞
- 母亲
- 老去
- 初老之年
- 不与平凡的自己为敌
- 赤子活在自己的世界
- 后记
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About the author
Qian Hongli is a Chinese-language writer about whom public information is currently limited; her nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background cannot be confirmed. One work by her is held in the collection, the essay collection You Guang (There Is Light), commonly classified under prose and miscellaneous writings. Based on the available material, her writing is mainly prose, often taking everyday experience and personal observation as its starting point, with attention to the texture of language and emotional restraint, revealing both the light and the subtle shadows of life through plain narration. Such writing tends not to rely on grand narratives but begins from small details, allowing readers to sense the author's observation of people, events, and nature in quiet reading. The title You Guang also suggests the tone of her essays: seeking and preserving faint light in ordinary days. Because both the number of works and biographical materials are very limited, a fuller account of her creative development is not yet possible, and her style and influence await further works and public information.
