The Loss of Romance
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy slow-paced life essays and seek emotional resonance in ordinary daily life
- Writers who need models of essay writing and want to learn to draw insights from detail
- Office workers who read on commutes or before bed and prefer short, self-contained pieces
- Readers interested in travel writing about Chinese and foreign scenery who like a gentle narrative voice
Not a good fit for
- Readers of genre fiction who prefer strong plot and fast-paced narrative
- Readers expecting systematic philosophical argument or academic analysis
Reading tips
- Read two or three pieces a day in the volume's order, pause after each, and note one detail that struck you in a sentence.
- Alternate between the travel pieces and the life essays to feel how the author's approach changes with different subjects.
- Choose a favorite piece, imitate its angle of observation, and write a passage about your own everyday observations to test what you've gained.
About the publisher
Writers Publishing House is a Chinese publisher focused mainly on literary publishing. Its output covers classical literature, foreign literature, folk literature and Eastern philosophy, with some extension into popular reading such as social fiction and parenting books. Its catalogue contains more than 900 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber and its edited editions, Shakespeare's Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and foreign literary classics such as The Brothers Karamazov and Lost Illusions. In terms of authors, it includes classical writers such as Cao Xueqin and Gao E, foreign masters such as William Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Balzac, and translations by translators such as Zhu Shenghao, Geng Jizhi and Fu Lei. Overall, its publishing profile balances Chinese and foreign literary classics, emphasizes quality translations, and serves both academic and general readers; publicly available information on its specific publishing plans is limited.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 作者简介
- 自序
- 诗的救赎
- 小雪和大雪
- 青春致幻剂
- 昔日重现
- 布拉格寓言
- 沙漠之花
- 加州看海
- 罐头厂街
- 斯坦福即景
- 四块玉和三转桥
- 机场的拥抱
- 老电话号码
- 端砚和淮盐票
- 街上看鞋
- 云南三章
- 荒原记忆
- 人生除以七
- 世界杯和NBA
- 足球与艺术
- 塔夫特夫人的选择
- 水袖的绝唱
- 大年夜
- 赛什腾的月亮
- 消失的年声
- 窗前的花开了
- 飞机延误之后
- 后知青时代的“老三样”
- 养老院踩点
- 书虫书屋
- 我们便身在天堂
- 苍蝇馆子和洗脚泡菜
- 理发记
- 重逢仙客来
- 劝业场记忆
- 明信片
- 莎士比亚书店
- 丝瓜的外遇
- 应无所住
- 萤火虫
- 孤单的雪人
- 山的传奇
- 水的传奇
- 遭遇雷雨
- 除夕的荸荠
- 上一碗米饭的时间
- 客厅里的鲜花
- 芝加哥奇遇
- 公交车落下的花瓣
- 风中华尔兹
- 贪官的名字
- 天津的哥
- 自行车咏叹调
- 大合唱
- 亲笔信
- 面包房
- 太阳味道的西红柿
- 风景只在想象中
- 阳光的三种用法
- 阳光的感觉
- 曲线是上帝的
- 雪被城市带坏了
- 铁板的呼吸
- 到天堂的距离
- 好味止园葵
- 大师隐于市
- 软卧车厢上铺的女人
- 丽江即景
- 杜鹃，杜鹃
- 街上连狗的目光都变了
- 超重
- 一场戏的工夫
- 草帽歌
- 美丽的脆弱
- 手机使街上的人们表情丰富
- 喝得很慢的土豆汤
- 生命平衡的力量
- 青木瓜之味
- 甜的尴尬
- 钟和表
- 苹果寓言
- 美丽的手语
- 波兰沉思
- 颠簸的记忆
- 西门町印象
- 与石共舞
- 寂寞不是一个漂亮的标签
- 简洁是最美的生活
- 泡影
- 忠诚
- 下午茶
- 四十岁的奥蒂
- 楼前的黄昏
- 树的敬畏
- 浪漫的丧失
- 夜曲
- 布拉格的咖啡馆
- 冷湖吟
- 林荫路
- 丁香结
- 孤独的普希金
- 北京人喝酒
- 北京人吃早点
- 北京的女人
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About the author
Xiao Fuxing was born in Beijing in 1947, with his ancestral home in Cangzhou, Hebei. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1982. A contemporary writer, he has long been active in essays, fiction, and reportage. He served as deputy editor of People's Literature and Selected Stories, and as vice president of the Chinese Prose Society. He has published more than one hundred works and has repeatedly received the Bing Xin Prose Award, the Lao She Prose Award, and the Zhu Ziqing Prose Award. His essays often draw on everyday observations and personal memory, written in a plain, warm style that values natural expression of detail and feeling; his work also has wide influence in middle-school Chinese-language reading. This library holds 25 of his titles, covering classic essays, prose collections, film and television, and social fiction, including lyrical pieces such as Mother by the Window and When Plums Ripen and Gardenias Bloom, as well as sustained reflections on life and time in The Distance of Time and My Interesting Days in Boring Times.
